Just off the main drag in busy La Jolla I spotted this quiet scene, such a contrast to the busy surroundings. I have started to catch up on some of the challenges in my Flickr group, which I have mostly ignored for months now with the craziness of my packing and moving adventures. This photo is in response to the topic, QUIET.
I am so looking forward to having a home again, although it won’t have this sweet entrance.
We’ve been hanging out in Southern California while waiting to move into our Arizona house. Here’s a view of palm trees in lovely La Jolla, where we’ve been staying while visiting with our son, who lives in San Diego.
The sunset was beautiful as we went out to get into our car last week when we were on our trip to Arizona. I went back inside to grab my camera and got this quick shot of the pines by our friends’ house.
Image enhanced with Jessica Drossin’s Mumbai texture
We are moving out of our house in 2-3 weeks and into the new at the end of August. Despite the presence of creatures like the one below found on my friend, Debbie’s window screen, we are getting so excited about moving to Arizona!
We bought a house!!!! It’s just what we were looking for- smaller, one level, low maintenance, and beautiful! We will finally exhale when all is finalized with the sale of our home in California- but it looks like we will be living in Arizona by the end of August! This will be a HUGE change for us- especially leaving all our friends. We expect lots of visitors!
Today’s photo was taken in the backyard of our ever-hospitable friends, the Thomases, who live in a gorgeous home in the pines of Prescott. We’re hoping they won’t be sick of us by the time we move here!
Today I am having a brief moment of “fame”, thanks to WordPress, the site that hosts my blog . My jellyfish photo from a few weeks ago was published in an article about serialized posts, such as Texture Tuesday! The WordPress editor, Ben, didn’t write about Texture Tuesday itself, but included my photo as a demonstration of how to bring readers to your blog by having regular features that would draw in more visitors. The article appears in the daily WordPress blog, which I confess I had never read before (I’m going to start reading it RIGHT NOW!).
Now, back to photography- here is Jackson, our constant companion in Prescott. He is the very goofy, playful and extroverted kitty belonging to Debbie and Dale, our wonderful hosts in Prescott, where we house-hunted.
Here’s a view of flowers blooming on the balcony of our hotel room at Lake Gregory, where we stopped on the way to Arizona last week. This photo is textured with two layers of Kim Klassen’s kk_1301, one at soft light blend mode and one at color burn.
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Mama Bunny is a regular visitor to my friend, Debbie’s backyard in Prescott, Arizona. Baby avoided my lens, but I managed to zoom in for this shot of Mama.
We took a drive yesterday and checked out some model home sites in Enchanted Canyon (in Prescott). It is a beautiful area, and one of the attractions is petroglyphs on Indian Rock. There are several other areas around Prescott that also have petroglyphs; I hope to check them out someday.
I haven’t posted this week, because we’ve been busy visiting our friends in Prescott, Arizona- and looking for a house to buy. I’ve barely taken time for photography, much less gotten my laptop out. It has been a wonderful visit, and although we haven’t yet bought a house, we’ve fallen in love with Prescott again.
The day before we left for Arizona was the day of the horrible tragic deaths of the firefighters in the Yarnell fire (just outside of Prescott). The town is in mourning and coming together to help the families of those who were evacuated and/or lost homes as well as the families of the fire crew who lost their lives.
Fire was on our minds as we drove Hwy. 40 from California into Arizona. Just past Kingman we saw another wildfire- the Dean Peak fire.
Since we’ve been here, we’ve seen a wildfire- and experienced lightning, thunder, a hailstorm and flash flooding! We’ve seen lots of lizards and one javelina- think I’ll go sit outside now and hope a herd of javelinas come through the yard before dark!
textured with Kim Klassen’s kk_daisy
Remembering . . . morning fog on Monterey Bay
We spent just about 24 hours in Monterey this week to take our daughter’s family to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Hundreds of photos were taken; here is one of just a few of sea creatures- the gorgeous jelly fish. Truthfully, I took just as nice shots with my point and shoot camera on my last visit. I think they are almost impossible not to photograph well in their beautifully lit tank. This one I edited with a texture, so that I would have something to post for this week’s Texture Tuesday (a couple days late). I used Kim Klassen’s teatime texture.
Miles and his mama looking out across the bay before sunset.
My grandbabies are here!!! Not much time for blogging- but here’s a quick tribute to Henry’s curls (photo taken yesterday on the beach at Monterey):
He is so cute I could just eat him up! Really- the cuteness is just overwhelming! Seriously CUTE!
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