I was so busy playing games with family during the weekend...that I didn't take too many pictures...but I wanted to show you a photo of a very special birthday girl...Jewel. Saturday was Jewel's 88th birthday and we were all gathered to have a wonderful dinner with her. Jewel splits her time in Central California and Missouri...depending on the time of year. Jewel is Don's sister's Mother- in-law...and she is a great friend to us all!!
For those of you who aren't too familiar with California...Central California is mostly a rural farming area. I took all of these pictures from the car on our way home. We were anxious to get home and it was pretty cold and windy out...so we didn't stop unless we had to. I thought the clouds were so pretty as we drove south.
Many fruit trees line Highway 99...
Here is a close up...the picture is kind of blurry...but they are so pretty in bloom. About half the trees were in bloom...these look like plum trees to me. They grow all sorts of fruit trees up there as well as many kinds of nuts...I think walnuts and almonds are the most popular here...and grapes for raisins...lots of raisins come from here!
This is along Interstate 5...it is wide open and very green right now...
Going up through the Tejon Pass...we see snow! That wasn't there on our way up on Friday...it looks like everywhere got a nice dusting of snow.
This is almost to the top of the Pass. It is at about 4100 feet up there...
We are on our way back down and we pass Pyramid Lake...this lake is very popular in the summer for boaters and skiers...it gets quite warm during the summer here...but now there is snow...it is very pretty!
Here is a close up of the pyramid by the lake...I don't know why that was built but it looks interesting out there. A few minutes after we pass Pyramid Lake we enter Los Angeles County and then head east to our home...we find our local mountains covered in snow as well...we had snow still up there but now it is quite low. Winter seemed to have taken a break for a few weeks but has returned to our area. We are expecting cooler temperatures and rain all this week...I do love the rain...so I gladly embrace the change in weather...living in California, you learn to accept the yo yo weather...or you complain alot! I choose to accept it...I wasn't really ready for warm weather yet anyway!
Enjoy your day, my friends and embrace the things you cannot change...they build character!!
1 comment:
Nice photos, Linda. We drove past Pyramid Lake last Thanksgiving enroute to SLO. No snow then, but we'd left snow behind in Seattle, and today is supposed to be a repeat of then. And wouldn't you know that we're scheduled to go to CA soon?
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