Garden Flowers - 30 May 2014

A Bougainvillea Duet

Tres muchachas de rosa legends

A Digitized Watercolor Reproduction

James Walker Bougainvillea (pink)
next to the summer Etoile Violette Clematis
Home Garden, 22 March 2014

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An Unexpected But Very Welcome Visitor

This VIP (Very Impromptu Papilionidae)graced the garden today. The Swallowtail came by unannounced-will they ever?-this afternoon. It did a complete floral inspection on the 'Declaration' Lilac shrub. She was well pleased with the findings and rewarded the host by posing for some photography.

A Splash of Spring Colors and Music

Franck Pourcel and His Orchestra (1968)
- Isle of Capri (Grosz)

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Knee Deep in Flowers We'll Stray

Eydie Gormé (1958)
Tip-Toe Through the Tulips with Me
(Burke & Durbin)
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Return of Spring

"Behold, how Spring appearing,
The Graces send forth roses;
Behold, how the wave of the sea
Is made smooth by the calm;
Behold, how the duck dives;
Behold, how the crane travels;
And Titan shines constantly bright.
The shadows of the clouds are moving;
The works of man shine;
The earth puts forth fruits;
The fruit of the olive puts forth.
The cup of Bacchus is crowned,
Along the leaves, along the branches,
The fruit, bending them down, flourishes."

--Henry David Thoreau

First Day of Spring, 2014

Lat: 37.7° N
0007 Hours PDT
Current Conditions: 57°F/14°C, Clear
Humidity: 64%
Dew Point 45°F
Wind: 0.0 mph

Astronomy:

March  20, 2014       Rise:        Set:
Actual Time            7:07 AM PDT  7:15 PM PDT
Civil Twilight         6:41 AM PDT  7:42 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight      6:10 AM PDT  8:12 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight  5:39 AM PDT  8:43 PM PDT
Moon                  11:36 PM PDT  9:21 AM PDT

Waning Gibbous, 87% of the moon is illuminated

Length of Visible Light 13h 00m
Length of Day 12h 08m
Tomorrow will be 2m 26s longer

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Garden Azaleas March 2014

Six days until first day of spring 2014.

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Migration Plan to Cloud Computing Complete

Microsoft has officially notified me it will no longer support Windows XP on 8 April 2014. Since January I have been devising a workflow plan of weaning document production and storage on my Windows XP units.

As of this writing, the planned migration away from the Microsoft platform to Apple devices and the cloud storage are complete and operational. This plan also involved some fine-tuning of the extant Google services Gmail and Google Drive.

Macro highlights of the changes put in practice are as follows:

• Reduce the use of Google's 15 Gb storage for all its apps to 2.5% or less:
  
  • Set Gmail account as same sender at a free 1TB Yahoo Mail account
    
  • Set auto-forward of Gmail newly sent and received email to Yahoo Mail account
    
  • Set auto-delete of newly sent and received Gmail
    
  • Set auto Google Drive script to send all old Gmail conversations to the Yahoo Mail account.
    
  • Extract Gmail attachments (jpg, pdf, mp3, mp4, and etc.) and upload them to cloud storage
    
  • Set up option to redirect Google Drive files to Box's 50 Gb free storage.
    
  • Clean-up Google Drive for use as a cloud "spare tire" or reserve.
    

• Migrate Widows Office Suite files from the Windows XP SD to the cloud
  
  • Set up free CloudOn Microsoft 2010 Office Suite linked to Google Drive and Box
    
  • Migrate all applicable all blog music, xml, and html to the cloud
    
  • Set up iOS devices' Numbers and Pages apps to "Open in..." cloud services
    

• Migrate Media Files from the Windows XP SD to the cloud
  
  • Set up iOS devices to do file and folder tasks (e.g. make, rename, delete, move, and 'open in...')
    
  • Set up iOS devices upload to the cloud directly including file compression
    
  • Set up iOS devices download from the cloud including file decompression
    
  • Set up iOS devices by-passing iTunes to import and export media files
    
  • Index and manage all media file uploads to the cloud
    
  • Create primary and secondary WebDav servers on all iOS devices for file sharing
    

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Some Grass for Daylight Saving Time

II Generation (1975)
(Bluegrass)
Happy Together (Bonner & Gordon)

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Flowers in Bloom Today, 6 March 2014

Mon coeur vous dédie sa mélodie

Two birthdays on today, 1 March:

Frederic Chopin
(1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849)

Margot Lefebvre (1962)
"Mon coeur vous dédie sa mélodie"
(after Chopin - Etude Op. 10, Number 3)
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and

Glenn Miller
(1 March 1904 - 15 December 1944)

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Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (1940)
- Danny Boy (Weatherley)
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