<p>It is a lovely Sunday afternoon here in California.</p>
<p>Being "sheltered-in-place" and confined within the perimeter of my home, it can be lonely.</p>
<p>Without having to dig up old photos of my past travels (hmmm.... that is not a bad idea at all, I will show you my trip to Venice next Sunday!), let me share <b><em>the deep blue sky above me...</em></b></p>
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<p>and what is below me!</p>
<p><b><em>This garden angel sculpture has been with me since I bought my first home in 2004.</em></b></p>
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<p>I have potted succulents in the corner of my tiny front courtyard. The weather around here can be very hot and dry during summers, I find that succulents survive very well on this corner.</p>
<p><b><em>A common succulent, this is a Jade Plant.  My Mom called it "money plant", and she insisted on planting them all over the front garden of our home. Growing up so used to seeing Jade Plants, I had to have them on the front courtyard of my home too!</em></b></p>
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<p>If I want to follow my mommie's footsteps, I need to propagate the money plant so that I could populate the entire front courtyard, right? </p>
<p><b><em>These are all Jade plants, but the one in front of the photo below is a Hobbit Jade Plant, which my Mom called "Gumby".</em></b></p>
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<p><b><em>This next one is a small-leaved succulent plant Elephant Bush, and Mommie referred to this plant as "Dwarf".</em></b></center>
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<p><b><em>I love this next succulent that has wavy, paddle-like leaves of silvery blue, and it is called "Blue Dude".</em></b></p>
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<p>I can take more photos and share it here, but I want to be respectful of your time. And I know that it can e cumbersome to get scrolling down numerous photos. It can be an overkill, at times.</p>
<p>I guess what I really want to share with you this beautiful and sublime Sunday is the fact that I am missing family.</p>
<p>I miss being surrounded by family... my two brothers, my Dad, and most especially my Mommie.</p>
<p>I know that they are all looking down at from heaven.</p>
<p>And I know that my Mommie must be so proud of me that I carried on her love for succulents even if it is just in a small portion of my tiny front yard.</p>
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