Here is a running photo montage of my travellin' days, with a few quiet moments, too. We also were blessed with a new great-nephew, Taylan Bellah, but that's a story for later, since it's so recent.
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| The Windmill at Santa Nella, where I stop for cheap gas on my trips to see Jeffery |
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| America's Farm to Fork Capital! |
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| A funny unknown floral bush on a walk with the ladies. |
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| snake tracks in the fine road dirt |
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| my new car, a 2010 Explorer |
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| Hand comparisons the now 4 months after the before surgery. |
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| Tobin Trail hike with Brenda |
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| Jackass Creek waterfall late July, sure looks different than in February. |
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| Rock Crest from the Tobin Trail |
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| A derelict hot dog stand next to the Cabrillo College satellite in Watsonville |
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| Gizdich Farms tractor. |
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| We'd been told to look this cool Farm up because of its fabulous pies. How could we resist. We got a tour of Watsonville's various neighborhoods looking for the Farm, but that was fun, too. |
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| Farmer Jeffery in the apple orchards. A four generation farm. |
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| bourganvillia |
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| The Moss Landing Social Club on a foggy day |
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| me in front of our former home on Mission Fields Rd. |
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| Pretty flowers on the wall of the Mission |
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| we approach the Mission; fond memories welling up again |
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| the thatched roof house is still there, still with the power lines marring the view |
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| Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmel |
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| Cordyline Australis |
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| Jeffery in the forecourt of the Basilica |
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| The Nave and Chancel. This basilica had no aisles up the side as San Juan Batista did. |
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| very dark, but rather radiant baptism chapel |
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| Juniperro Serra is buried under the altar. |
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| This is a reliquary! I never really knew what they looked like. This one holds the remains of the original coffin of Juniperro Serra. |
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| There's the pulpit on the wall |
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| loved the painted ceiling and walls in this room |
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| This Mary is so representative of grief, while her outfit is sublime. |
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| Very large cypress. |
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| The plaza has been repaved since my time here. |
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| The cross |
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| Oh the fun I remember around this fountain. |
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| art shot. |
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| Art shot of the refectory |
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| dark but so pretty |
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| I'd like one of these, please. |
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| I guess they had two of these next to eachother originally? |
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| Some of these books were from circa 1511 |
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| book bindings for my sister Lucy, who loves such things. |
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| representative living room |
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| Part one of three panorama to give a sense of the character of the village of Carmel by the Sea. |
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| This was one of three hat shops that we saw in our wendings |
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| a Turkish shop lured us in. |
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| and the medals for best clam chowder and master of mussels lured us for lunch at Flaherty's |
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| lobster bisque for me, clam chowder and salad for Jeffery |
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| Architectural detail. |
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| One of Dr. Seuss's paintings in a shop we browsed. |
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| Another Dr. Seuss. |
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| This one was kind of my favorite |
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| The dog mask and merman caught my eye in this shop, and we also toured a fine pen and paper shop. |
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| This was sort of my favorite house along the cliff drive we took |
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| art shot of seaweed, and tales of our popping as many of the balloon-bladders as we could, just because they were there. |
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| The beach with the lagoon, where we swam as kids. |
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| Us. |
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| driftwood domains |
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| Ice plant |
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| Jeffery on the rocks |
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| One more funny shaped house |
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| One more look at the beach towards Point Lobos, and then we started home. |
I have, again, only a few more, but I'll leave those for later.
