Love Fondue Hate Fondant

While having the Queen Anne cordial cherries, I bit into a chocolate and found a shrunk maraschino cherry- I hate preserved cherries- but this was ok- what I found disagreeable was the colorless fondant. It looked like wax and no way, I am gonna have it.
When I have a cake, you can have all the flowers and what not made from the Fondant.

Lemmings down the cliff

The dont look before they leap, do they? or are thy following the Zen of "Do what you are doing?".

Cats and dogs

Once on the top of Humphrey's peak, a man warned us to rush down telling that the birds knew something that we didnt. We were blithely taking pictures of rain in the background on another mountain.

Holy Molly, what would have happened to the hikers if not for their tardy biorhythms?or lets say only an excellent hiker would ignore the alarm on a day like this. It is raining so much that if I catch all the things that its raining, I should easily be a millionaire and never complain about pets being expensive.

The rain god sure does lend an ear. It is a crowd rain.

10.27.12

In Everest_'82 , until then its the white mountain snow and then a flock of birds swoop away, then the ice structures, the climbers are on, unscaffold

Bookmobile

Came across one somewhere between classes 3-5. My first reaction: I was cautious. What are books doing in a bus? The BookMobile was really a suspicious zero-in target stationed at the center of the play ground.

Bluegrass

In this music who ever is in front of the mike, I assume his/her is the instrument thats playing the melody. Its kinda like musical chairs with each singer scuttling towards the mike at their turn.

Other not so interesting things are that it is a
grass too.

Rain

So there is a belief that you should not point to a rainbow.
Other than the female, male rains, AZ has fake alarm rains.

five alarm sunset

It gets its name from five alarm fire.

Kudzu vines

Miniatures at PHX

When I think of miniatures, I am taken back to a mini sketch of an African hoopla dancer, who even in the dance posture of a little bent forward had the pride seen in the side posture African statues.

Super Target

Clearly I have been sleeping when hypermarket joined the lexicon. In particular, missed the Target Greatland formation but caught up with Super Target. With its double entrance, seems like a double burger.
Their urban store concept is quite interesting. All ye, AZ people even if it is in mirages, go ahead and dream of a house with different architectures, may be a Greek porch and a Greek backyard. I dont even know what a Greek backyard looks like. - a momentary respite from the cookie cutter homes.
Well, since real ones are expensive, one could go for model miniature homes.

Harkins 25

I give up. What is this new place that I am driven by, where Harkins is Harkins 25 and Target is Super Target?
I am trying to figure why the 25? Then I find, there are hordes of theatres with a number suffix. New finding - Harkins Centerpoint which I should know in and out by now has a 11 attached to it. The only thing that I felt, it could point to was the number of screens at the theatre. Nope, that des not tally Harkins 25 has 21 while Harkins Centerpoint 11 has more than 11.
I have another explanation, most likely wrong till I find the right one. Harkins 25's rival is amc 24. Its already wrong. Harkins 25 opened in 1997 while amc 24 opened in 1999.

Investigation suspended until free minute time....

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Collecting flowers

I collected flowers of different colors and there were many more, but I thought few are fine - you get the idea. After going a little way up the mountain, I realised that few petals were just falling off by themselves. One light violet had four petals, two had fallen to the ground, one on to my right and the other to the left. I didnt feel like taking them back and just left the little boquet by a rock, to the mountain. I was wondering why I felt like collecting the flowers only this time. I had seen them a month ago too. This time, away from the trail, there was abundance of some medium size perfect looking yellow flowers on the slopes. Somehow I got this idea that such are the flowers which attract people like the 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'. I picked one such on the way back. After walking with it for a while, I realised the stem was bending.
I had seen an old man walk down with his collection of flowers. At the saddle, someone pointed out that the old man was 90 years old and he had come along with his 65 year old son.
One tip I followed: Never collect the only plant of a population.

It means

When the Spanish word of the day told me about the meanings of Colorado, Montana, Nevada.. wanted to know about other states.

Treadmill then

I was reading Emerson on art and was intrigued by "made all travelling ridiculous as a treadmill". Treadmill and then?

Leonard Monti Trail

Sounds fancy.. but the easiest, fun trail, close home. Now who thought itsy bitsy A mountain had a trail with such a name?

Open for magic

I did not give into Harry P and his world- I dont know why, but I like to stay away from fantasy.. today, I was so open for 'what can happen'. At laser tag, we had to insert a marker into the laser gun- while doing this and other things, I was hoping for some more such - new experiences?

Manned Easel

One day, almost towards the end of a hike, we approached the back of a painter at work. He was wearing a white shirt with a medium sized fish on it. A clear outline of the fish- skinny sketchy diagram is for us commoners. His fish had its body filled with daubs of colorful paint.
It was interesting to see what he was sketching. His painting had horses in it and he was using the background of mountains to fit in his picture. I was wondering where he painted the horses from.
I have been noticing how, when we hike the same place, at each point I am reminded how something happened. They are building up each time. I am already confusing one mountains feeling with another.

Guinness Brownies

I must have looked the biggest fool to a waitress today. There were lots of coffee drinks to choose from but all had alcohol in them. I have had a sip of Irish coffee- nah! not for me. So when asked for beverages- I said I dont have any of the things in your menu. I stopped my finger at Guinness Brownies. I didnt like the brownie so much- it was moist. Few hours later, knowing it has beer- I feel, had I been in the place of the waitress, I would have pointed out the contents. Its another thing that this brownie is not supposed to have the beer taste.

One stop shop

I went to buy a tube of size 24. Now I was expected to know its width too. I said I wanted some resistant tube. After a phone call, I had the size as 'normal'. Now the shopkeeper believed that there was no normal size. I concur. Then I was expected to look around and point to a similar bike for an idea about the tyre. Now what do you expect of a person who had a bike for a year and didnt know until recently that it had numbered gears. While looking for the cycles.. needless to say that I was imaginatively trying on each cycle..Thats when I was distracted by the camelbacks around.. I have to get that for a hike.. In that built up looking for the list, I asked if they had poles. Now after a phonetics class of bowls and cereals.. in a semi offended tone he said '(Heavens sake..).This is a bike store. go to rei for your cane..' . I knew I could get that stuff at REI. But as it goes with one kind of humans.. I want it at a local store..Well, blame it on the overlap.. When one of the things on the wanted list matched.. I thought I would find the rest..For a minute, the situation seemed like ... when I enetered the store.. the place looked so populated with Alice Land props.. that this place would have eveything...