Lovin' California

The laundry is done; the suitcases put away (at least mine are - Husb is flying out again tonight), the pictures are burned onto a disc, I've caught up on everyone's blog, and my desk is a mountain of mess.

We dodged the snow bullet last night and suffered only a dusting; today we continue with spring's bursting around us.  Helleborus, forsythia, dicentra --♫ March is busting out all over ♫.  Now if the temperatures would just rise a bit.  (Remind me I've said this when it's 90° here with matching humidity).

My sleep cycle is still off from being on the Left Coast; I can't get to sleep at night and then wake up on California time.  This should end soon especially since I'll return to the gym tomorrow. I intend to exercise myself into East Coast time.

Thought I'd share a few photos...

After Marge and Dave picked us up at the airport, we went to dinner at C Level on Harbor Island where we caught up and shared this spectacular view of San Diego.

Can you see the marine layer hovering over Point Loma, the Navy base, and then progressing toward downtown?

It dissipated as quickly as it appeared.

The next day we had a wonderful b-fast at To The Point.

And then headed for Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley.  I shot these out the car window on the way...

We were greeted along the way by the 'waves' of these happy wind turbines. 

Wagons, Ho!!!

The comments on my ceramic, bue mushroom were very interesting!  It's one of a four piece garden set my sweet DIL gave us.

At the suggestion of some of you, I sent the last post on to Roger Goodell.  I don't expect a response.

We arrived in San Diego yesterday.    It was a totally booked flight -- on Southwest (where the only difference between boarding and cattle drives is the mooing).  Sitting wedged up against the window, I tried to play solitaire on Richard's computer, but couldn't move my arms -- and the man behind me talked for five solid hours -- loudly!  But after landing were picked up by Marge and Dave and taken to dinner at C-level -- fantastic mojitos and great food -- right on Harbor Island overlooking downtown San Diego.  A great start to our week.

Today, we went up San Jacinto on the cable car (Pictures to follow) and enjoyed spectacular views of the Coachella Valley from at 8600 feet.  We then had dinner at Spencer's where we kind of over-ordered  calamari and brought almost all of it home with us.  Tomorrow we're going to Joshua Tree National Park and then home for a lunch of left-over calamari.  Both should take about four hours.