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August 13 The ParkOn Saturday we went once again to Balboa Park. We spent a lot of time in the botanical gardens (see album Flowers). We experimented with the camera doing close-ups, zooms, zoom close-ups, so a lot of the pictures weren't very good. The best of them are in the album. The lilly pond is located right outside the main entrance to the gardens. The view is looking away from the building.
Despite my best efforts to avoid it, we also went to one of the museums that was featuring a jewellry display. Mostly early 1900's from places like Africa, China, Mexico, Afghanistan. Lots of silver, some gold and a fair amount of turquoise. Big heavy stuff. Fortunately it was all from pirvate collections and there was nothing for sale. It was all encased so no good pictures.
We had lunch at a Japanese garden. The food was really good. We ate it on a patio under a big umbrella with a gentle, cooling breeze and soft Japanese music playing in the backgroung. Very pleasant. The garden itself is a work-in-progress; interesting but will be better probably by next year.
There was a free concert (there is every Sunday from 2 to 4) on the world's largest outdoor pipe organ. We listened to only some of it as there's no shade in the concert area and it was, as usual, sunny and hot for that time of day. Amazing sound.
On the way back we stopped off at a place called "The Chicken Pie Shop" and picked up supper. With the exception of our friend Nancy Fazackerly, they were the best chicken pies we've ever tasted.
Then we vegged for the rest of the day.
Judith starts work again tonight so we'll just take it easy today and hopefully she'll get a little nap in later.
That's all for now.
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