Flower Friday : : Petunias

I never liked petunias that much, but there are so many new varieties and they are such satisfying flowers. they come in many colors, bloom forever and are very undemanding.

I think I've said everything I want to say about the state of our union and the lack of enthusiasm for celebrating Independence Day. Instead, we are gathering with like minded friends and celebrating a cherished, and er, eclectic friendship. Spike is going too as we have a neighbor who tends to blow up things on holidays and we didn't want to leave him home alone.

Our destroyer-in-chief commented proudly the other day that he had posted a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office. I doubt if he's read it though, for he exhibited little knowledge of what it actually says. It's worth reading.

Here is an exerpt:
We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to scure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
--Drafted by Thomas Jefferson and adopted in Philadelphia on July 4. 1776.