On the fence
Home again and back to our usual tricks with a Sunday hike at Homestead Ranch Park, beautiful and filled with the song of fine feathered friends. It’s good to be home.
Say hello to our intrepid traveler! She was sooo very good, everywhere we went – restaurants, wine tastings, parks, book stores, hotels and homes, jaunts high and low. Juniper Beulah, our world champion of sweet adorableness, making friends and melting hearts. Good girl!
Tags: Juniper Beulah, Traveling
Unfortunately, I was not quick enough on the draw to capture Juniper spinning with glee. It was adorable to witness her utter delight at seeing the ocean, which is amusing because our girl does not like water!
Ventura
The world’s oldest still flowering fuscia – planted in 1899. It was enormous!
The Dire Straits fan in me squealed with delight upon seeing the Telegraph Road sign!
Jacaranda before…
and jacaranda after. Both are equally beautiful to my eye.
Rose Valley Falls – Los Padres National Forest
Another hairless squirrel to ogle and taunt…
Tip-top lunch and sweet service at Azu, with beer flavored with Pixie dust and peel from the famous Ojai Valley tangerines (which we saw growing!) and a very fine Alisal rose. Delicious. What you can’t see? Sweet Juniper Beulah sleeping at the hubster’s feet. Good dog!
Bart’s Books – my first encounter with an outdoor book store. It was lovely.
After many years of patiently waiting, I am pleased to report that the Ojai Valley is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited!
Tags: Juniper Beulah, Traveling
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B. Yeats
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Beautiful Moorten Botanical Garden, with every manner of lovely cacti (and a jaunty hummingbird or two), just down the block from my Uncle’s, though it would have been worth a far, far longer trek.
Frankinbun – the delightful whimsy of the wallpaper is a fine match to the tasty franks in (and out) of their delicious buns.
My kind of irreverence.
At the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum now, one man’s hopeful and provocative use of the everyman’s detritus, sometimes beautiful, often strange and humorous. I love the lunch trays!
Pioneertown – a bit lackluster, save the extraordinarily beautiful drive.
wind
Ship of the Desert – 1936
The dazzle of fine architecture overwhelms.
T-Rex meets G-Rex (and Juniper) on our Big Adventure – a fine end to our California desert journey.
Up next – Ventura and Ojai!
Tags: Traveling
