Sometimes just getting out of the house for some fresh air can turn in to something delightful. The High Hand Nursery in Loomis, California is a lovely place to shop for your garden and a wonderful place to enjoy a quasi-botanical garden. And, they have a pretty darn good restaurant too!
My little one is so interested in animals. He is fearless which makes me happy and scares me equally as much.
I’ve been lamenting lately that it seems we have fewer butterflies than when I was a kid. Anyone else notice that?
Sometimes you randomly run in to a stranger with a bird who teaches your cousin how to make it play dead! (Can’t make this stuff up.)
The trip out turned in to my favorite thing to do. Photograph flowers. Not too shabby for cell phone shots.
Here’s to the end of summer! Bring on the fall!
Cheers.
Bulldog Travels / Photos By Jenny 
Not too shabby at all! Great flower photos. 🙂 –Curt
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thanks. Wish I had my good camera with me…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Love the fearless, love the bird, love the flowers. We’ve had massive numbers of Painted Ladies butterflies in Denver last couple of months: http://www.9news.com/weather/weather-colorado/what-will-happen-to-all-those-butterflies-when-it-snows-in-colorado/481309810
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s wonderful! Glad to hear they are somewhere. I’m wondering if the drought had anything to do with it.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Lovely photos.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Love that last photo …. had to do a double take. How funny!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Crazy. The bird’s owner was eccentric to say the least.
LikeLiked by 1 person
The flowers are simply lovely!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you!
LikeLike
Cell phone shots? You must be joking. 🙂
I was just thinking what a great photographer of flowers and colours you are.
(I remember other posts)
Great post. And I agree about animals. They’re fascinated, which is good, but we also must teach them their way about animals.
(Blonde hair is growing! He will have white blonde hair)
Good to see another post.
And glad that progress seems to be made on the fires…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yup. Cell phone. Yup Toe Head! Yup gonna need to teach him to be safe.
I have a few more random posts coming…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Teaching is the name of the game. They are so busy re-inventing the world, that we all need to a) give them enough room to explore b) point out the dangers. Example: Gonzalo is very intrigued by flowers. The neighbour has roses. So I have to teach him that roses have spines…
Looking forward to the posts.
Fires (almost) under control now?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Fires are getting better. Rain expected Thursday so let’s hope.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thursday… One more day to go. Best of luck. I wish we could send a – small – tropical storm up your way. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes. Starting to teach boundaries. He is still so young…I’m trying anyway.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Youth doesn’t matter. He needs to know there are things that can be done, and other no. Stairs are “dangerous”, little man. (if you have stairs, teach him to go down the stairs on all fours. Much safer and they learn easily.) It’s all a process. And a lovely process.
LikeLiked by 1 person
And your cousin with the parrot? Great to-drop-dead shot. 😉
LikeLike
Yah. Strange huh? Some guy walked in with a bird on his head and when we laughed and acted surprised he made a big show out of it. Lol. You really never know what you’re going to get.
LikeLiked by 1 person
True. But that was an experience. Your cousin just couldn’t believe it right? (She looks a bit like you or is it an impression?)
LikeLiked by 1 person
I think so too but we are related by marriage so it’s not possible. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
General “style” then? So I did get the same impression. You seem to have a lot of family around or close by. That is nice. Americans tend to relocate so easily, sometimes the families are spread all across the Union.
LikeLiked by 1 person
My family is spread out everywhere. But my immediate family is very close.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Good on both counts. You get to see the close ones often, and have many places to visit… 😉
(Is it raining yet?)
LikeLiked by 1 person
No rain here. And I’m not sure if it’s raining in the bay area or not. But regardless there are cloudy and cooler weather. That will be helpful for the fire fight no matter what. But I do hope that they are getting drops of rain there. They are finally getting the upper hand on the fires. What a disaster.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It is. A disaster. I’ve seen photos of Santa Rosa. A nightmare… Let’s hope for the best.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I have been off social media for a while, so I’m thrilled to see the picture of your darling little one! Congrats!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you! Glad to have you back! He is a joy for me!
LikeLike
Glad to hear that! I’m well, just sent my baby boy to college. Very bittersweet!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I can’t even imagine!
LikeLike
I hope all is well with you.
LikeLike