Spring Wildflowers in Borrego Springs Desert

John recently had his first biz trip since the staph infection. I took advantage of the time to go on a solo-roadtrip... something I used to do annually, for reflection. It had been way too long! I spent a couple days exploring Borrego Springs, a desert area well known for its spring wildflowers. I've have fully determined after both Joshua Tree and now Borrego that I am not a desert person, but it was cool to see so much life and color spring forth from such seemingly drab, parched, dead earth. I set out to see wildflowers (only), but ended up stumbling upon a wild bighorn sheep. Or it stumbled upon me, rather. When that sucker came within 5 feet of me, those horns were looking particularly huge.

United We Stand

I love the small glimpses of Americana one often stumbles upon during rural roadtrips.

In light of today's loud, crazed, obnoxious ranting from both right-wingers & left-wingers ... and how polarized and bitter people seem to be right now... I am unfortunately not too sure of how United We Stand anymore. Sad and rather pathetic really.

So long San Diego

A few last pics of San Diego:

Boo! I still don't have any pics of Thea! It was so great to have lots of time catch-up with Sarah, Zack and sweet li'l Miss Thea. I will miss them!! Thea blew me away with her verbal skills at 15 months. My favorite line of hers is a sassy little "excuse me" everytime you are encroaching on her turf or if you are in her way... hilarious! Oh, and she has a killer head stand / downward dog on demand. Sweet Thea... you stole my heart! Hey Randelsons -- come to Mill Valley!!!

PS, Zack, payback is hell. Remember all those daddies who worried about you dating their daughters? Based on her personality at 15 months, Thea is going to be the biggest flirt in town. Hearts will be breaking right and left.

Pretty Posers

I've accepted that our current lifestyle is not conducive to pets. But one day I'd love to have a chocolate lab and a pet peacock. I guess I'll put them on my "urban refugee" planning list... give me 10 years more of urban life. Then I'll be ready. I think.

Mateo visits us!

I guess it's old news now that Matt is moving to Orange County. Today was his first day of work at the new job in Irvine. It was just a few weeks ago that he was flying out from B-town to escape the snow and bask in balmy San Diego with us! Now snowy winters are ancient history for Mateo. It was fun to be tourists for a couple of days with us. I hadn't been to a zoo since elementary school... was something I was saving for when we have kids! But everyone raves about the SD zoo, so we did it up right!

Proof that God has a sense of humor. Just look at these guys!

Time's-a-flyin.

Been slightly distracted, immersing myself in all things but time spent on computer... hence my last post was, oh, 7 weeks ago. Perhaps I'm not cut out for blogging. I never was one to maintain journals. So much California loveliness took place the last few weeks... rather than boring y'all to tears, here's just a few last pics of the San Diego coast. One quick update: John is all better now! The staph infection is fully cleared out and he's slowly building his leg back up to par with short runs and lots of PT.