Birthday Flowers

My husband
John Plocher hates to shop but he does have three favorite stores:

• Micro Center
  computer and electronics store chain
• The Train Shop (1829 Pruneridge Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95050,
  (408) 296-1050) model train shop
• Williams-Sonoma
  cooking store chain

For his recent birthday, I took John to Williams-Sonoma at the
Stanford Shopping Center to pick out
his present. The Stanford outdoor mall has a lovely and innovative flower display
year-round but the Spring flowers are particularly gorgeous. Some of the
colors glow so brilliantly, they do not look real.

John held still for pictures because he was on the phone with our daughter Jessica,
sorting out Poetry and Prose Performances Project (“P4”) computer questions. Jessica is recording
literary classics for P4 on YouTube.

John and Paul

Flowers at Stanford

Flowers at Stanford

John and Katy

Images Copyright 2009 by Katy Dickinson and Paul Dickinson Goodman