Tallulah-Palooza Friday

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

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!)

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!

Random Heart (Rose Petal Edition)

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...

Tallulah-Palooza Friday

Sun drunk.

Purple Rain

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

Bee Mine

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

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!