Detail

Detail on Carnegie Library in Paso Robles, California.

Spring

Where's Owen?

Cleverly camouflaged cat concealed in colorful comfort!

Check out Color Carnival for more colorful photos.

Rose

Field of Lupine

There is an amazing field of lupine between our house and our neighbor's house, with an occasional poppy to break up the intense blue!  You can smell the sweet aroma as soon as you step outside!  I love spring!

Almond orchard in spring

The Paso Robles area was once the largest almond growing district in California with 26,000 acres planted in almonds.  Most of these orchards have been taken out and replanted in grapes.  But scattered around the area are remnants of old almond orchards, which burst into bloom in February.

California Poppies

California poppies for Color Carnival. 

It's incredible to see a whole hillside covered with these bright blooms.

Outside Looking In

We are not amused!

California landscape

This was taken near Shell Creek Road east of Paso Robles

Windows

Three windows in China.

 The top photo is a window looking onto a small lake in the Lingering Garden in Suzhou.

The middle photo is looking out a window in a guard house onto a section of the Great Wall.

The bottom photo is looking out a window into a garden in Suzhou.

Added March 20th.....The Blue Window was taken on my first trip to China in 1983.

Sunset at Morro Bay

Blue

A mosaic for Monday at the Little Red House.  Click here for a peek at more mosaics.
Photos from Central Coast in California......L to R: Morro Bay, bluebird in my yard, wildflowers east of Paso Robles, Highway 1 Big Sur, bluebird in my yard, indoor swimming pool at Hearst Castle.

Colorful statues

Color Carnival entry

Colorful plaster statues at tourist stop along highway 58 between Mojave and Barstow

A calm morning in Morro Bay resulted in lovely reflections.

Moss draped oak trees one foggy morning in winter

Sunflower

A sunflower from my garden

Nine koi in blue pond

bright orange shapes threading water

      swimming in circles       

Koi in a pond on a tea plantation outside of Hangzhou, China       

       

Reeds in a small lake at sunrise

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going"

Beverly Sills

Neptune's Pool at Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California

"Time spent with cats is never wasted."

Sigmund Freud