It’s been soggy these past few days. Not a good time to take pictures. That is unless dew-studded tulips are your target. (I got about 50% of what I planted — mostly due to my own ignorance of tulip needs.) The following are a few bits and pieces from my recent trip to the Mendocino [...]
Posts Tagged ‘California’
Mendocino redux
Posted in Travel, tagged California, Travel on April 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
End Post for 2009
Posted in Travel, tagged California, Travel on December 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ll be leaving again for another 2 weeks – some in Mexico. This will be the last post for 2009. I’ll close with a few odds and ends from my trip. We came across these oddities on a walk in Ojai.| Guess a metal-smith lives here. We came upon this beauty in Santa Paula. It’s [...]
A Little Piece of Eden
Posted in Travel, tagged California, Travel on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Ventura-Oxnard alluvial fan is a rich agricultural Eden! Those green patches are largely agricultural — sadly, being greedily encroached upon by housing. Besides citrus orchards, there are sprawling acres of strawberries, artichokes an celery — to name a few. They all seem to be in perpetual harvest and renewal. We drove out among the [...]
