My crochet guru took me on the most fantastic & delicious tour of Somis, California today. It was such a luxury to be carted around in her chariot while I sat spellbound in the passenger seat with the window down.
We both went a little wild over this stand of poinsettia trees. Picture ruffly scarlet pom poms swaying above your head in the most turquoise sky imaginable. I used my iPad camera set to hipstamatic app to get these shots. Lovesick.
I arrived yesterday late afternoon. Joyce made supper. We had St. Germain cocktails, and stayed up late chattering. Such fun!
I learned an easy crochet stitch and am off the training wheels and on my own tonight. I think I can do it.
We stopped for strawberries the size of small apples early in the afternoon. So good!
I picked oranges and lemons from groves along side the road, stopped for nuts in Somis, and enjoyed our meanderings down Ventura county highways and byways. A special Saturday with a new friend.
Sent from my iPad
Did you say St. Germain? I discovered that particular elixir a few months ago. I now have another reason to get to the end of the day!
Posted by: Lucy Muraca | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 04:08 PM
Blue skies and warm? Sounds so good. I have to ask about the drink as well. What is in it? That Joyce is a very special person to know. My grandfather had a very large pointsetta bush in his backyard in sunny SanDiego. I miss them both. Isn't the world full of wonder?
Linda
Posted by: Linda | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 03:41 PM
I once had strawberries straight from the field in California and thought I had died and gone to heaven... An angel peeing on my tongue. Have fun with the crochet. Curious what you will make of that. It will be fab I am sure!
Posted by: photocatseyes | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 10:09 AM
I thought I felt your presence nearby yesterday. I'm over in Thousand Oaks...it was incredibly beautiful yesterday! Looking forward to seeing what you do with your new skill!!
Posted by: debra m | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 08:13 AM
What a fun day! (Love the shadow pic.)
Posted by: Judy H. | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 07:59 AM
sounds and looks divine! xo
Posted by: natalea | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 07:56 AM
That sounds lovely. Beautiful pics!
Posted by: Chelsy | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 07:41 AM
so perhaps we will be seeing bits of crochet in your art journals?! gorgeous sunshine and poinsettias...full of envy from dreary Ohio...
Posted by: Dianne | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 07:39 AM
Love St Germain; it is the elixir n'cest pas? Go you on the crochet!
Posted by: Jane Bumar | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 06:04 AM
What a great little getaway. I love the picture of the poinsettia tree and I never realized they were trees. Funny how you never stop to think about that. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Sherry Eckblad | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 05:57 AM
Poinsettia trees - take one's breath away. All sounds magical. Can't wait to see what comes off the crochet hook. xoDonna
Posted by: donna, doni, lady d | Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 11:37 PM
Those poinsettias have me swooning! I still have three from Christmas 'hidden' away in my back yard, and they are just as proud and beautiful as they were in December. Sounds like you had a great adventure ( wasn't the weather awesome today)?!
Posted by: Carol Gossett | Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 11:31 PM
The last and only time I was in Somis must've been in 1968 (you weren't born yet, were you!?) when I was going to Valley State (when CSUN was Valley State). A friend and I rode there from the dorm on his Vespa over the Santa Susana Pass way before there was a freeway going into Simi Valley. Very uncomfortable ride, but I was young and it was an adventure.
Posted by: connie rose | Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 09:08 PM
Sounds like a perfect weekend!! I don't know what a St Germaine cocktail is but I'll bet it is yummy!! My mouth is watering at the thought of those strawberries---real fresh fruit that hasn't traveled halfway across the country in a truck...oh, my!! One of my old college buds taught me how to crochet back in 2003 but unfortunately I didn't keep up with it and now I'd need to start all over. I do remember it as being enjoyable though so have fun with it!! What are you making?
Posted by: Cat | Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 08:12 PM
Suddenly find myself humming "Ventura highway in the sunshine, where the days are longer, the nights are stronger than moonshine..."
Great photos. Poinsetta trees? Strawberries in February? California sounds like a wonderful place to this Canadian still in the midst of the winter without snow. What is a St. Germain cocktail, pray tell? Can't wait to see the crochet results!
Posted by: Cynthia | Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 07:25 PM