California poppies..a sea of oranges and gold..so if you squinted a little while watching last nights' basket ball game at Staples Center, you would see those oranges and gold scooting across home court and yes, resembling our California poppies just a wee bit! What a game for our Lakers to play against the Phoenix Suns. Two players sporting eye injuries..Suns Steve Nash and our Pau Gasol and yet neither one allowed their injuries to even once interfere with their plays. Scores were tied at 2 or 3 times during the game so it led us to begin to wonder and then our boys started scoring big time. Jordan Farmar made a 3 pointer, Pau Gasol made it look so easy scoring 29 points. At one time during the score being tied, when Kobe Bryant was sitting out for awhile on the bench he made the statement "I'm old...what do you expect?" (ha!) Anyway, Bryant scored 21 points & added 5 rebounds but no steals. The Lakers entire offense operated like a smooth machine during Wednesdays' game. Bryant made the final pass a fitting one too, when he tossed the ball to Gasol at midcourt. Gasol held the ball until the final buzzer sounded and once again our Lakers won the game! Score? Lakers 124 -Phoenix 112. We now have a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals. Gold poppies, lets' pull off another win Sunday! Babs Wells