BECAUSE FALL IS OFFICIALLY TOMORROW

 I thought why not for the next few months, do posts that mostly have my favorite color in them - Orange.  They will be just random photos that I have taken ever since I had a digital camera - so I have a lot to choose from. They will range from nature, houses, my art, wildlife, interiors ...anything that has orange.   Wondering how you all are doing and if fall is showing up yet in your area. And by the way what is your favorite color?  It use to be purple for me, but lately it's orange and coming in second is turquoise.  

(some photos will be some I saved off the internet)

Here are a few

1.  Trees seen on a drive thorugh Twin Peaks on our way to Lake Arrowhead.

2.  A random photo I had saved off of an interior I liked.

3.  A sign a few years back when the high desert caught fire in an area around the 138 hwy. (Not my photo).

 4.  A house I love as we pass it quite often.  The orange door is perfect for it.  In winter on the corner where a tree has grown taller, they decorate with Christmas bulbs.

5.  My old neighborhool down the mountain where we lived in the foothills.  This house was behind ours where a whole new development went in with custom homes - big ones and where we thought we were the last house in the foothills behind us,  houses were built about five years later.  Our realtor told us back in the 80's when we bought our house that this land behind us was national forest area and would never be built on.  lol  The nice thing about it is they put trails back there so I would go walking quite a bit behind the house.  This area also caught fire in the "Old Fire" in 2003 and the fire came right up to our house.  The big houses were saved and as far as i know none were badly damaged.

Anyway, we went from living in foothills to moving up to the mountains.

MT. BALDY, CALIFORNIA

Some photos from a trip to Mt. Baldy.  We leave our mountain range, drive about an hour over to another mountain range to visit Baldy.  There is just a very small village with basically a restaurant bar, another restaurant bar and a church.  Other than that, there is the ski lifts and a restaurant up at the top of the lift.  

The last three pics - we took our first grandson, Hunter,  who will be turning 19 tomorrow,  up to Mt. Baldy when he was about 5.  I noticed on our last trip that the building near where he was walking on the wall, is now boarded up.  I hadn't been to this particular part of Mt. Baldy where the cabins are in years until we went recently.  Anyway what a different 14 or so years makes between childhood and a 19 year old.  I also caught him in action looking like he was flying.

GIG HARBOR - A FAVORITE AREA OF MINE

 The last time we were in Washington was spring of 2019.  My son and his family live there and since Covid we haven't been there as I don't want to wear a mask on an airplane and other reasons as well.  Anyway I'm missing them but also Gig Harbor which is about a half hour from their place.  There are so many beautiful small coastal towns.  I was looking through photos the other day and thought I would post a few to remind me that I need a trip there - even if it is a long road trip minus the cat - whatever will I do with her, sigh.

SOMETIMES ...

 I'll come across photos I've taken in the past which brings up great memories of a fun day.  I remember we had driven to a nearby city by where I use to work and decided to find this trail that we looked up on the internet.  As we were walking along I noticed this house to my right and of course the horses.  As we stopped for a bit the one horse came up to greet us.  We went back to this place a few years ago and a wall had been built so we couldn't see this house anymore.  Their property and house are gorgeous and of course so are the horses. 

This is a group of photos that make me want to get out and explore new places today.  

I think I posted them a few years ago.

 

HELLO -

 Just sharing a photo of these gorgeous lilies which I bought myself the other day. 

 Just in case you don't know this fact, which I didn't, but something popped into my mind and said "look this up they could be toxic to cats".  Where that came from I don't question just accept that somewhere inside of me I knew it could be dangerous.  I probably read it and just didn't remember I did. 

Anyway i now have had to move them into my bedroom and keep the door closed so Beanie can't get in there.  When we first brought them home I didn't know about the toxicity when I had them on the counter in the kitchen.  She was very interested in them and seemed attracted to the fragrance.   She seems fine so that's good. 

They sure make a bedroom smell good - They smell just like Stargazer's which I've always loved but I think i like the white lilies even more.