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Old Town in San Diego isn’t only about dia de los muertos art… part 1…

There are also flowers… Lots of pretty flowers… Flowers grow well in Southern California… because it is sunny almost every day… and because, as you might remember from an earlier post, the people of Southern California, where I now live, … Continue reading

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My English relatives have gone… so now I have more time to post about my English relatives…

There I am, teaching my cousin’s boyfriend, Malcolm, that it is okay to drink the less-manly blended strawberry margarita… as long as you get the extra-macho grande-sized ones. Yup, I am still posting pictures taken on the first of the … Continue reading

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That’s an abysmal color… a Pepto-abysmal color… ha… see what I did there?

Okay, we have reached the end of my last adventure. We have, once again, visited the Bay Area, and seen many marvelous things… flowers and sunsets, dogs and babies, San Francisco, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Morro Bay, and last… and … Continue reading

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Okay, these are the last otter pictures… I swear…

But she has her baby riding on her tummy… and she is giving him a bath… It doesn’t get cuter than that, does it? And I even got a picture of them with a duck in the background. There was … Continue reading

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She’s got the little baby otter on her tummy!!! How cute is that???

So there I was, on my way home from my last adventure in the Bay Area, making a quick stop in Morro Bay on the California coast, just to get a few more pictures to share… and once again… you … Continue reading

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It’s summer… you otter be relaxing…

Another advantage of me waking up at three in the morning to do the drive on the coastal highway, aside from getting to watch the sun come up with you, is that it allowed me to stop in more places … Continue reading

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Elephant seals… so put on your swim trunks… oh man… I crack me up…

You may remember that I did this same drive on California’s famous Highway One under very similar circumstances not so very long ago. That time, this little beach near Hearst Castle was crowded with elephant seals. This time, it was … Continue reading

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Still coasting…

Ha… see what I did there? Because I am still showing pictures of the central coast of California as the sun was coming up. I guess you get some idea, by how many pictures I took, just how often I … Continue reading

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Even more pictures of the sun rising on the California coast… oh, yeah!

Highway one is a special bit of road… And if you are willing to get up early enough… You will be treated some awesome views as the sun rises. It is a crazy, winding road, but there are hundreds of … Continue reading

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The end of an adventure… that should have ended some time ago…

Why, you might well be asking, especially if you are new around here… or have a bad memory… are we looking at a photograph of the fog-shrouded coastline of California, obviously taken near Big Sur, just as the morning sun … Continue reading

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