It has been awhile

Many of you know that Dale has been home for the last 2 weeks, but he'll be back in California tomorrow, and I've been promising a post since shortly after he left. The problem is I don't think I've moved the car except to go to work and of course to the beach. Rincon is south on the freeway for a bit - we've walked before, but there's a mildly steep rocky hill to climb down and quite a few rocks to climb over when walking to the best part of the shoreline. We find a lot of sea glass along this bit of the coast and also some interesting characters. This beach is popular with the surfers and part of it used to be a nude beach. Now the signs say no nudity so people try to take it as close to nude as possible - seems to be mostly middle aged overweight men. Brings several things to mind - #1 What were you thinking and #2 Just because it comes in your size doesn't mean you should wear it!!! (Like a pink thong!) I've seen women in things they should not wear also, but this beach seems to attract the men. The surfers haven't changed - its a necessity to cover up when surfing in 50 something degree water - or be very young and hearty. Moving on...we are attracted to the beach - it seems so peaceful, especially at sunset. Even if you've had a busy day and don't feel like leaving the apt one more time the beach is usually worth the effort. I really don't know why it feels so peaceful, the ocean is always moving and always different and at times down right violent. But the water always has a calming effect on us - either in awe of the power or just an ahhh for the day. And if you see a dolphin or 2 it's even better. Tonight there were several - all heading quickly in the same direction, maybe they were late for curfview. I am going try to add a video - its taken with our little camera, so the quality may not be the best, but it shows another part of the beach I love, besides Dale, I like the sound the rocks make when tossed about by the ocean.
Well i tried twice and did not get the video to work, sorry. If I take the time to figure it out later will try again.
Take cre

Green hills of California

Generally California is known for its "Golden Hills" Sometimes the winter rains bring on some green and this winter has been one of them - Everything looks so fresh and green and in bloom, but its been a few weeks since the last rain and there are brown spots showing up already. Last year the hills were golden all year. Our second year in California there were record setting rains and every where was green, even death valley had a spring bloom. (Set CA up for a huge fire season the next 2 years - all that new growth gone brown and little to no rain) A liittle rain is forecast for this weekend, maybe our creek will flow again. Oh yeah the picture is from Hendry's beach - a path leading up to a very nice home. At least it is probably very nice, we couldn't see it from the beach.

Our favorite walk to the beach

Hopefully I get the narrative correct with the pictures - the blog site has a bunch of numbers and letters where the pictures should be - Ths pictures will be there when I post the blog, they just may have a narrative for another pic. Well anyway we wanted to share our walk to the beach with everyone. First stop is our dream spot to live - a nice home with a small avacado and citrus orchard, the fence around it even looks to have some grape vines growing on them. However the price would probably be $5 million or more, nice but not that nice.
This is Dale's ideal - a rosemary hedge! And it is blooming now, in Ohio we try over and over to keep rosemary as a house plant, until we could put them outside in the spring again, but we have never succeed. Since we've been leaving for the winter we generally give our plants away and start over out here.
There are even geranium hedges out here. With the rain and now some warm weather every thing is in bloom. The outside smells like a florist shop when we go for a walk.
This is just a bloom. Dale's been taking close up pictures of different flowers. Some are pretty, but some are stunning. Last year we wanted to make post on note cards for the church craft bazaar. I'm sorry to say it did not happen, I was making a quilt for Heidi Leininger's wedding, maybe this year.
This is an orange tree it has blossoms, developing fruit and mature fruit all on the same tree - the blossoms smell wonderful and we have been watching a huge orange develop all winter. Instead of just stopping to smell the roses we smell the orange blossoms, the jasmine, the roses and any other nice smelling flower we can find.
And of course a sunset. We almost missed this one because we were looking for dolphins, and there was a cloud bank to make the sunset a few min earlier. Its always a good day when you see the dolphins and a sunset. So peaceful almost feels like the whole world is at peace.