Friday, April 29, 2016

Tallulah-Palooza Friday




Teeny-tiny mohawk up there...kiss kiss, Miss Mae!

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Sunny Bottles



How cute is this little arrangement of sunflowers in my vintage dairy/creamer bottle collection? Very! (It was B.'s idea, by the way...he's clever, that one!)

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Pre-Poms








Remember these posts?

This year the pomegranate tree made TONS of flowers; some have fallen off, alas, but the others are turning into fruit. Yay!

Monday, April 25, 2016

Mourning Cloak


This beauty was lying on the sidewalk...it's a mourning cloak butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa.

Lovely to see these fluttering around, but even in death it's a lovely thing...

Friday, April 22, 2016

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Purple Rain

Rest in peace, Prince...you were one of a kind.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Bee Mine




This girl was VERY busy inside the hollyhocks in San Juan Capistrano...

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

When the Swallows...

 ...come back! (I don't think they've been back for a while, alas.) I met my friend here and we had a fab time roaming around.



 There was a really sweet butterfly garden full of one of my favorite flowers that I have a VERY hard time growing: hollyhocks, 7 feet tall!
 Matilija poppies.

 An amazing cactus flower.



A cool 1930s Streamline Moderne building right in the middle of 18th-century adobes.


 Lunch! An enchilada salad...weird, but good.
 And various scenes from the train ride. Spectacular!