Return to Malta…
Malta is ancient and ever-changing with over 6000 years of history. One aspect of Malta that I like is that English is one of the two official languages.

Malta is ancient and ever-changing with over 6000 years of history. One aspect of Malta that I like is that English is one of the two official languages.

I’ve taken a long sabbatical from this blog, but now it’s time to start learning how to get around in it. So today, this draft from the pandemic is posted.

Gardens and Moorish architecture on the hill After arriving in Granada, Spain and looking up at it for a day, we finally got to see the Alhambra in all its glory. It took some climbing from our AirBnb accommodation in the old Arab neighborhood called The Albaicin Quarter. (I mean serious hill and stair climbing,…

The garden contains over 1500 roses in 4 quadrants around a wooden pagoda, including a special section for miniatures around a wishing well. All the plantings are protected from native deer by a 12 ft tall fence with locking gates so that we may see all the color week after week.

Here’s my first post on Wordpress. I’m expanding onto the WP platform, not deleting it off the Blogspot archive.
More pics, easier editing, more content. . .

PALMS Since I moved to the Valley of the Sun, I’ve discovered the many, many kinds of palm trees and palm shrubs that live in this desert. I’m baffled that I have lived this long and not known this. I truly thought that there were maybe 3 kinds of palms, but NO… There are Royal…
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