His body was flown back to Los Angeles, where he was entombed in a silver-plated copper casket covered in red roses and orchids. Bee and her two young sons placed a ribbon with the inscription DADDY on top. The honorary pallbearers included entertainers (Danny Thomas, Frankie Laine, the ...
I had no idea what kind of orchids they exactly were, so I picked one flower, and then came down the mountains to find a friend who studied plants. On seeing them, my friend immediately asked me where I picked them. "You get rich!" He excitedly explained, "This i...
There were large fields of foxgloves, banks of bracken, and whole areas of yellow iris with a few heath spotted orchids. I saw my first field-mouse scurrying along the road in front of me, and a grey heron out fishing for his breakfast. The sheep and cattle were grazing in long grass...