ONE OF THE PLACES I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING TO AGAIN

 This restaurant is over in Cedar Glen - a little part of Lake Arrowhead that has some really nice areas to drive through but also a restaurant with the best chicken tenders i've had (and their beer is pretty good too).  

The lower part of the building is a bar and the upper art is a fine dining restaurant.  We have only ever been in the lower part but I did walk up the stairs one time to see what it looked like up top (you know it's fine dining in the mountains when the tables have tablecloths, lol)

Near the restaurant to the left is one of my favorite thrift stores and consignment shops.  Again, in that building the consignment shop is on the first floor and the thrift store is second floor.  Some of my favorite houses I have photographed have been in the Cedar Glen area.  

They are still closed for inside eating because of Covid but I'm wondering if they have outside dining.  I will check that out soon.

And that's the news for today from So Cal mountains.

UPPER CEDAR GLEN

Cedar Glen is a little community in Lake Arrowhead.  Every year, at least  two or three times we drive by this house in different seasons.  With many small towns in the mountains you have the town and then an upper part of the town.  She resides right before you head to upper Cedar Glen - She welcomes everybody to Cedar Glen - whether you are a democrat or republican.

I love  how she's in the process of changing her colors, having decided to wear a yellow dress for the season. 

HOUSE IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR IN CEDAR GLEN, LAKE ARROWHEAD

I'm already looking forward to visiting all the little mountain towns when they start showing their colors.  I rarely posted anything from fall last year and the year before.  I took quite a lot of photos, thought I would post a few.  I really like this house.  Cedar Glen is a small community which has really nice houses and cabins.

A WONDERFUL TREASURE

Being retired and having moved to a much smaller house I never buy anything for the house ...rarely I buy anything.  I decluttered six years ago and i don't want to do that again.

Yesterday we wanted to get out of the house and I needed to go over to Lake Arrowhead Rite-Aid for a few things and i had mentioned earlier in the day that I also wanted to stop by a favorite thrift store of mine in Cedar Glen.  I rarely go there either and the only thing I have bought there in the past was some type of bedding for the outside cat boxes in the winter.

I won't go into why the color turquoise has been so prevalent in my life these last few weeks but it has - I see it everywhere.  Anyway, so we stop in there and at the lower floor is where they have really beautiful items, more upscale than you would normally find in a thrift store - this may even be more of a consignment type shop down below and then upstairs is where the clothes and linens and household items are.

So we walk in and I see almost immediately my favorite artist's print of Irises (Van gogh).  It was really big, not a small piece of art.  It was priced at $65 and I thought well I won't get that.  Then I find out it is 50% off so we did get it and then I go upstairs and this beautiful throw was $5.00.  I was pretty excited to walk away with two nice purchases.

Cedar Glen is a little area within the Lake Arrowhead area with adorable houses and a few quaint shops and restaurants (the restaurant on the left is pretty inside and we have only stopped in for a beer in the bar and have never eaten there ...maybe some day we will try it).

I could spend all day looking through the bottom floor of this thrift shop- beautiful items in there.

There are three buildings here - the thrift store, restaurant and a hair salon.