in the garden of a Keystone Kop

I'm fortunate to have made some wonderful friends via the internet. 2 of them -- Darryl & Luca -- drove all the way from Las Vegas to attend my reading. a humbling experience for me. the next day they came to Desert Hot Springs to pick me up at the Beat. then we wanderd around Palm Springs a bit before lunching at Azul (which had been Lobster Grill when Billy Berger & I lunchd there 2 years earlier). before dropping me off at my resort the 3 of us went to Moorten Botanical Garden. Darryl has his own blog but Luca doesn't like his photo online. so rather than picture them here I present me among the cacti taken by one of them:


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