Day 89 - Californina - cactus

I don't think this is desert, though there's a lot of brown here - there's also some gorgeous flowers. This huge cactus is growing over a fence down the street from my son's house. I'm not a big fan of cactus, but this was definitely interesting.

Day 88 - California - Street in Novato

Rode with my son to run an errand and saw this while sitting in the car waiting on him. Was caught by the way the sun was shining through the tree onto the flowers. Business was interesting looking too :)

Day 87 - California - Starbucks

We do have Starbucks in Alabama - but not near where I live. So, my DIL took me to Starbucks today and I had a double carmel frapppuccino. It was wonderful. I could get used to that really easy!!!

Day 86 - California - closeup

This is a closeup of one of one of the redwoods we saw yesterday. The park ranger said it was 1000 years old. Can you imagine?

Day 85 - Muir Woods - California

Well, we've been sightseeing today - went to "Muir Woods" - the redwoods aren't the really huge ones here, but it's pretty close to where my son lives and I'd never seen redwoods before. It's a lovely national park and we walked till I wore out. You can't really see how big and beautiful the trees and ferns and growth is in these pictures.

Day 84 - California trees

Well, they sure don't look like trees in Alabama. These trees are at the house next door to my son - and yeah - I made it safely. Though yesterday was a VERY, VERY long day. It's a long way from Alabama to California and I was just too tired to even look at a computer when we finally got to his house last night.

SO, guess I'll be posting California pics for a week anyway.

Day 83 - Old well

I'm posting early today - actually took this photo yesterday when I went down to the barn. This is a hand dug well from the 1800s. The 'base' around it is huge flat rocks. When I was growing up this well was in a screened porch that opened onto the kitchen of my grandparents home (also from the 1800s). That was quite modern as they didn't have to actually go outside in the weather to get water. It was 'improved on' and at one time actually had a pump that would pump water to the "wash house".

The house and most of the outbuildings burned in the 1980s. It hadn't been lived in since the 1960s but held a special place in my heart. We always planned to renovate it and live in it ourselves. Vandals changed that plan. Chuck wanted to knock the rocks down and fill the well in - I just couldn't.... it's the last thing left connected to the house and while I'll never use if for water, I just can't let it go. The goats love laying on the stones next to the well.

That's the back of my house you can see in the distance.

I'll be traveling later today - I'm going to the dark side of the moon (California) to visit my son & his family. Hopefully I'll be able to post every day, but the travel days will be VERY long, so we'll see.