Here we are, almost to summer, and boy, can you tell. The phrase "June is busting out all over" comes to mind as our world has gone from ravaged to lushly green and flowered in a seeming blink of an eye. Here is the end of May and the first week of June. What fun I've been having! How lucky I am!
I'll start by taking you on my drive home from Santa Cruz via "the country" as opposed to the city. I hope I don't wear you out!
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| For my Mom, a shot of the Aptos exit off Hwy 1, where her sister Ruth lived. |
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| Sorry for the windshield debris. I travelled in cool fog for quite a ways. |
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| popped over one set of hills and left the fog behind |
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| Loved the bathroom sinks |
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| Up and over another set of hills to reach Hwy 5 in the big Valley |
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| San Luis Reservoir was there in the middle of all these dry hills |
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| Is this The West, or what? |
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| This is the view, pretty much, for the rest of the way home, or at least until I reach the foothills of the Sierras |
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| Okay, there was a huge Orange orchard in there somewhere south of Newman |
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| it was pretty cool, really |
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| Travellin' with the Trucks! |
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| Memorial Day Weekend with Family! |
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| Lily holds a prickly pinecone |
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| Jeffery and I met up with the ladies on Yellow Creek |
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| They worked on a little pool for non-swift water bathers |
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| Lily kept my grandma's heart thumping as she wandered over the slippery rocks |
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| Kelly was brave, and before Memorial Day, too; as is our custom |
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| Jeffery and Aila also brave the frigid waters, which make you feel clean and refreshed. |
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| We celebrated Jeffery's 60th birthday with his Mom, who brought the surprise strawberry shortcake. |
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| sister-time to settle down with a movie |
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| Aila braves a ride down the hill in Bigfoot with Uncle Jeffery |
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| Kara fulfills a bucket list wish; to drive a tractor |
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| A true tractor babe! |
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| I was nervous at the tipping, until they swung the backhoe over to balance the tractor. |
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| Seen on the car of a lady flagger at a road construction stop. |
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| pretty purple on the Indian Springs trail |
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| lovely complete snakeskin; I didn't even flinch! |
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| Indian Hill and Ben Lomond |
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| Poison Oak bush all pretty with berries |
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| Notice the poison oak in this picture? |
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| These grasses danced in the lightest breeze and "twinkled" their little "bells". I also think they were where the tick leaped on me as I felt their softness |
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| View of Belden from the trail |
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| One of the Chinese buildings on Broderick St. in Oroville |
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| One of the display rooms at the Oroville Chinese Temple (with glass reflection at right) |
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| This old lantern was covered in cotton gauze and painted, and over the years, the weight of it made it go from round to oblong. |
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| The other side of the room |
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| silk pictures |
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| a dragon head |
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| one of the temple gods |
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| and another |
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| and the final one |
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| close-up of the painted lantern |
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| another display room |
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| The Moon Temple doorway |
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| Tong Fong Low Buddha; the Restaurant Buddha. |
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| The Moon Temple display |
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| Oh, how I wanted to get closer, much closer to see this. |
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| puppets and museum pieces |
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| loved the desk and the kimono |
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| A new drum on display since I was last here. |
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| Final bit; the "I learned something new today" photo. Carnegie endowed a library in Oroville California! Wow. |
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