Design: Black Horse Inn
Designer: Carriage House Samplings
I stitched a few horses, some of the fencing, and began filling in the grass…
A Sweet Smelling Day
My DH headed to Germany on Valentine's Day but he did have this colorful arrangement delivered on Saturday…
So as not to overfill the vase I put a few of the roses into a smaller vase and placed them on the coffee table…
And he also gave me this beautiful bouquet with gorgeous coral colored roses…
From which I captured this pretty picture. I do believe my photography class has paid off.
On The Road Again
In a previous post I began to document our December 2015 travels in California. Continue with me down the Pacific Coast Highway. What is that I see?
Cows? Yes, cows. Somehow these creatures seemed out of place; not something I expected to see during our travels along the PCH. Not as many people stopped to view them. Oh well, their loss. I snapped a bunch of pictures and, like that woman at the Brown Butter Baking Company, this cow appears to be giving me the stink eye! Obviously, she did not appreciate me bothering her while she ate!
We stopped for the night in Pismo Beach. I read about Splash Cafe and their award winning clam chowder bread bowls. We wanted to see what all the hype was about and we were hungry! The murals along the outside of the building…
were adorable and very amusing!
The clam chowder bowls looked inviting but fell short of award winning. They were good but we are New Englanders, we have tasted some excellent clam chowder.
The following morning we hit the road, but before leaving the Pismo Beach area we stopped to see something very interesting.
Do you see what I see???
Look closer…
A little closer…
That is a clusters of these beauties…
found at the Monarch Butterfly Grove in Pismo Beach, CA. This place is tiny but well worth the stop, especially if you can make it in late Oct-Feb. when thousands of butterflies cluster in the Eucalyptus seeking shelter from the winter. When we were there the temperature was 60 degrees, just warm enough for some of the butterflies to be flying around (they will fly when the temperature reaches 55 degrees or above).
300 miles into our trip we stopped in Solvang, CA ~ The Danish Capital of America. This topped my list of favorite places, probably because I much prefer exploring small towns over the craziness of large cities.
I loved the look of all of the shops. How cute is this needlework shop? Such a cute name too: Thumbelina .
It is here that we found the perfect spot to take a Christmas Greetings picture to send to our kids…
I jokingly kept telling them that we should have purchased a selfie stick, everyone seemed to have one.
We spent most of the day in Solvang before getting back on the PCH to head to San Diego, which I will highlight in a future post.
Thanks for Stopping by…
Until next time…
Until next time…
