The poppy on self’s front porch has started blooming again!
Took a picture for Cee Neuner’s FOTD Challenge.
Flower of the Day (FOTD): Matilija Poppy
October 9, 2021 at 1:11 pm (Flowers, Links, postaday)
Tags: California, flower photography, Garden, happiness, Saturday
A Photo a Week Challenge: Multiple Shapes
September 11, 2021 at 11:28 pm (Links, Lists, postaday)
Tags: California, Carmel, Gardens, Home, Nancy Merrill, photo challenge, Saturdays
Self loves this challenge. Thank you, Nancy Merrill, for hosting A Photo a Week!
An Airbnb in Carmel
July Birthday Party
Sandy’s Garden
Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) # 7: Central Coast
August 24, 2021 at 2:56 pm (destinations, Explorers, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: California, Cambria, Cee Neuner, Gardens, inspirations, photo challenge, restaurants, road trip, summer
Self still playing catch-up on the Photographing Public Art Challenge, co-hosted by Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao, which she adores.
She just completed a road trip to the Central Coast. She loves doing road trips because it’s a break from the unrelenting heat in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Robin’s, 4095 Burton Drive, Cambria: Each Table Top is a unique patchwork of tiles. Mine had a plane.
Cambria Nursery, 2801 Eaton Road, Cambria
Fence as Art: Cambria Nursery, 2801 Eaton Road, Cambria
Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge: Agapanthus (Again)
August 23, 2021 at 12:26 am (Flowers, Links, Sundays)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, Garden, photo challenge, summer
Self is pretty sure she’s already used agapanthus for Cee’s FOTD, as soon as they started blooming. Now, her backyard’s looking a bit parched, most of the blooms are blown, except for one. She tried photographing from different angles: back and front. In the end, she liked her first shot the best, because you can really see the silky-looking texture of the blue petals.
Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge, 20 August 2021: Cambria Plant Nursery
August 20, 2021 at 3:08 pm (Flowers, Links, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, discoveries, Garden, road trip, summer
The nursery is just off the main road to Cambria. Self visited for the first time a few days ago. Highly recommend to anyone who’s in that neck of the woods. The nursery is large! And filled with plants of every type.
Decided to make this, rather than a specific flower, the Flower of the Day, Aug. 20.
As always, thank you to Cee Neuner for hosting the FOTD challenge.
Cambria Plant Nursery, 2801 Eton Road, Cambria, CA
Thursday Trios Challenge: 19 August 2021
August 19, 2021 at 7:47 pm (destinations, Explorers, Family, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: California, Carmel, humor, memories, photo challenge, road trip, summer
Self loves this challenge. It is so much fun to look through her archives for trios.
Thank you to the host, Mama Cormier!
In July, self decided to Airbnb in Carmel for a few days. On all her drives around California, she somehow failed to hit up this place, which was one of the first places her Dear Departed Dad took her to when she was a wee little girl. We were on our first family vacation from the Philippines, and Dad decided to make of it a road trip. Somehow, he had always harbored a secret fantasy of having his entire family engage in that quintessential American family activity: the road trip. So he bundled all five of us kids and Dearest Mum on a plane, and rented a car after we landed in San Francisco, and took us on a road trip that included: Carmel, Las Vegas, and La Jolla. Oh, and Highway 1, which we drove all the way from San Francisco to La Jolla.
Anyhoo, last month, self decided to Airbnb in Carmel, and her host had a most interesting apartment, filled with original artwork, weights, records and turntables, hefty art books, and guitars (in case any of the guests wished to break out in song?). Here’s his guitar collection:
Self’s host was extremely cryptic. She notified him that she was vacating, and leaving the key in the apartment per his instructions, and got this response:
- I am just down the coast a little, enjoying the vanlife.
She thought and thought about an appropriate response, and finally came up with: Have an excellent vanlife!
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
Life in Colour: August Photo Challenge
August 18, 2021 at 8:08 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: California, photo challenge, Pismo Beach, road trip, summer
The color this month is RED.
There are some intense reds in host Travel Words’ gallery.
Since self is currently on a road trip to the Central Coast, she decided to take pictures from the places she visited today:
Thai-rrific, 208 Higuera St., San Luis Obispo
Outdoor Mural, Pismo Beach
‘Twas foggy this morning, on Pismo Beach.
None of these reds are truly eye-popping. She took all these pictures today. She’s happy she decided to go to Pismo Beach early, before the crowds.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC): “Here Comes the Sun”
August 17, 2021 at 11:23 pm (Links, postaday)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, Garden, inspiration, music, photo challenge, summer
Prompt is from the Beatles song, sung by George Harrison.
Thanks to Cee Neuner for the prompt. You can find the full lyrics on her blog.
I chose my inspiration from the refrain:
Here comes the sun
And I say it’s all right.
I have a collection of solar lanterns. My newest one is a bright, butter-yellow.
A Photo a Week Challenge: Natural Lighting
August 13, 2021 at 5:07 pm (Flowers, Food and Drink, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Lists, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: California, Carmel, Fridays, Nancy Merrill, photo challenge, road trip, summer
What a fun theme! Self looooves Natural Lighting.
Thank you to the host of the Photo a Week Challenge, Nancy Merrill!
Picnic in the Park
Kitchen Window
Carmel Mission
Good Morning, Red! Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC), 11 August
August 11, 2021 at 3:58 pm (Flowers, Links, postaday)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, Garden, photo challenge, summer
The CMMC this week is RED. And it just so happens self has a lot of red on her front porch!
