I must have blinked. February came and went.
It wasn’t unforgettable though, San Diego has had exceptional rainfall and cool weather for our usual dry region. The hillsides are green, the wildflowers are thriving, and the surrounding mountains are white with snow!
My husband and I snuck off for a few days to our local mountains just before the storm hit, perfect timing!
We enjoyed wine and cider tasting, hiking, live music, and some amazing food! We were amused by the wild turkey along the highway, enjoyed beautiful sunsets, and everywhere we went we were greeted by genuinely nice people, the service was outstanding. Overall, it might have been one of our favorite getaways! ☺
Tiffany Arp-Daleo Art 
What a wonderful trip! Amazing photos- makes me want to visit there. Love the cat picture!! ❤️
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Thanks Jessica! It was a great place to escape to!
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Great fun! The nicknack place looks so cool. OMG, I haven’t seen a Big Boy statue in years. Beautiful photos. I love the kitty portrait.
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Thanks, Tim! Yeah, there were many treasures to be found in that shop, that Bob’s Big Boy def brought back some memories for me too! 😂
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Beautiful.
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Thanks Gigi! ☺
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That’s a great looking place to shop! (K)
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It was a crazy shop, an old house actually, the rooms went on and on forever, so many treasures! ☺
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I used to know a lot of places like that but they are all gone now. As one of our perennial mayoral candidates puts it “The rent’s too damn high”
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I’m afraid that is the case in most places these days. 😔
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Wowsa! That orchid!!!
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I’m so proud of that orchid, it actually bloomed again!
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Wow!! That’s amazing! I’ve never had much luck with orchids, but dang, they’re gorgeous!!
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Stunning ,open air
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That mountain air is so therapeutic, it feels good just to breathe!
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Very good. Your poppies are the same colour as mexican Cempaxutchli… (hard to pronounce. The flowers of the Day of the Dead)
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Indeed, we call those marigolds, and they all grow and thrive in this climate! It’s wonderful to see so much color in our landscape after so many years of hard drought!
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I can imagine. California has been suffering a lot of extremes in the past years. (Or has it always been like that?)
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We’ve been through many droughts in my 52 years, but the big fires have only been threatening in the last 15 or so.
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Which, 15, is too much time. The damages of fires to Nature and the people take ages to fix. Now I remember, in th 70’s, in the South of France, every summer there would be fires and fires and fires. And it still goes on. Not enough credits on forest management methinks…
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So much fun! Each one is a new favorite – they’re so pretty and interesting! Thank you for taking us on a tour of your February, Tiffany! And for showing us that magnificent cat! 😻♥️😻
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Thank you so much, Robin!
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