There I am, still teaching my English relatives, cousin Dot on the left, cousins Lynne beside her, and Lynne’s boyfriend, Malcolm, about Mexican culture, food, and most importantly, tequila, in Old Town, San Diego…
Oh yeah… big margaritas and big plates of real Mexican food…
And we needed to fortify ourselves, because we did a lot of walking. Dot is over 80, and it was hard to keep up with her… and this was still the first day…
Lynne and I have a funny thing we do… that started when we visited them in England last year… I try to take a picture of her when she is taking pictures of the rest of the group, and she turns to take a picture of me taking a picture of her…
By this time… after all my walking around taking dia de los muertos and art and flower pictures while waiting for everyone to arrive, my younger daughter Mollie and her boyfriend… and my wife… were also with us. He said I could put him in the blog. My wife still doesn’t want me showing Mollie on the blog, but her face is obscured… and my wife still doesn’t look at my blog… ever… Just so you know, we staged this picture…
And there I am again… a little buzzed… and sprouting angel wings. Mollie took three pictures of me in front of the wings, lining them up… and we all know I never waste a picture of me…
More evidence of the water that Southern California steals every year… via a very long viaduct… (say that five times fast)… from Northern California.
So I took these two pictures to highlight the fact that, due to the good weather in San Diego… and the pilfered water supply… anything will grow here… if you don’t mind running short of the stolen water…
I don’t know if the two photos capture my point very well, but in them, you see cacti… which is what should be growing in a desert… which Southern California actually is… and a big pine tree… that would look more at home in Northern California, where it’s water supply comes from… and palm trees… which would be just as happy on a tropical island… all growing happily together in the never ending sunlight.
It was so much fun to have them all here.
Pouring My Art Out 
Very cool – it is fun looking at your world through new eyes. Mollie’s boyfriend is brave asking to be on your blog – that makes him fair game ya know. Great joke material – like: if you’re going to be Art’s son in law, you’ll have to learn to make butterfly hinges out of cold steel. Or: What have you photo-shopped lately? Let’s see. As a test, Photoshop a pair of BBQ tongs made from cold steel so they have Art’s face on them. Or: You know you have to be a strong Trump supporter to get Art’s permission to date his daughter. Go find a campaign office and offer your services. Bwahaha!
very few outsiders actually pass the qualification exams to become one of us…