Filoli - Landscape Painting

Garden Side Trip

A side trip on the way home included one of our favorite places ~ Filoli Garden and estate south of San Fransisco in Woodside . It's an out of the way place that is not on many people's radar screen. Even most avid gardeners do not know about it. One of the things that makes it unusual is that it has a formal style more common in Europe than in the US.


The wisteria was in full bloom which I've never been there at the right time of year to see before. Magnificent!

Shopping and Talking - What we do best.

Continuing photos of our California trip.....

The six of us took a day to go on a short excursion to the quaint town of Cambria.
The drive there is exquisite any time of the year but this Spring was especially lush due to the extra rain they've had.
But the weather was certainly warm and sunny for the whole week we were there. Yes we Oregonians needed that!

This bank of wild sweet peas required a closer look. The fragrance was marvelous and Mom was hoping for some seed pods :-) .


Cambria is a small shopping destination consisting of boutiques and an abundance of all-around charm. A wonderful place to go even if you 'intend' only to window shop. A garden theme is predominant so it was perfect for the avid gardeners in the group. (Mom, mostly!)

Visiting Family

A trip to visit my parents, and my brother and his wife in California, where they live
on a shared piece of property, was a wonderful sun break in the middle of a cold,
wet Spring. Our week managed to sandwich right between my Dad's 86th birthday
and Mother's Day, missing each by a day or so. I have plenty of photos to share
but to start with here are some family shots.

Bluebells

" I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful

than the bluebell I have been looking at.

I know the beauty of our Lord by it."

~ Gerald Manley Hopkins ~

Infinite Beauty

Newness