Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 42

Today's Daily 5:

1. Nectarine for breakfast.  in bed.
2. actually kind of sleeping a good portion of the night
3. encouraging notes from friends, promising to pray
4. a few brief minutes at the farmers market
5. sunshine
6. wearing a top I purchased at the tibetan shop a few years ago
7. a long walk on an Indian summer day
8. taking photos of the fall colors in my favorite park
9. making a whole pot of passion tea for drinking through the evening
10. text messages that referenced palm trees and made me giggle
11. chocolate
    

Sun, Sites, Water (California Part 3)

 

One more zoo photo, just because I really happen to like this photo.

The Museum of Man

 

At the beach at Coronado

Hotel del Coronado

Lisa pointed out this sign to me, and it cracked me up!

Seals at La Jolla

Needing to get my feet wet

At the Presidio

Lisa introduced me to many of her friends (who I promptly informed her that I was going to borrow/adopt) and one of them was hosting a Moroccan Tea.  That was a totally fun experience!  Also, this particular friend's driveway, on a sunny, somewhat humid morning, smelled like the butterfly garden at the Calgary zoo - an indoor smell, outdoors.  My commenting upon this fact, like my love affair with palm trees, was, I think, a source of great amusement for my friend who is used to a somewhat more tropical climate year round!

And, I don't have any pictures, but the day we spent in the LA Garment District was full of adventure, too.  That was a day that I'd been promised would be a truly cross-cultural experience, possibly complete with a marriage proposal or two extended to Lisa.  I don't think there were any marriage proposals, but I had great fun trailing Lisa and her Mom around to the various fabric merchants, and, since the weather here at home is colder, have made use of the scarf I purchased there at Santee Alley on several occasions.