I’m a lucky girl and live near the beach - Dana Point, San Clemente, Doheny State Beach, the Headlands and Strands.  I had only been down to Strands once and through the Orange County Register I’ve kept up with the development starting with new homes and trails.

The Local section of the paper, on January 8th, ran this story - click on it to view larger:

Orange County Register - Online Extras - www.ocregister.com/danapoint

My friend Tammy and I went and parked in the Interpretive Center’s parking lot and started walking the trail down on the Headlands and up Selva Rd to where the trail zig zags down to Strands beach.  We then walked on the trail in front of the homes being built at the bottom and many empty lots.  Re-looking at the article and map, we could have walked a lot further.  We’ll save that for another day!  Here are a few pictures I took:

Tags: Dana Point, Strands, The Headlands

We were at my Daughter and her Husband’s house for dinner and I accidentally opened two beers.  No, I wasn’t two fisted drinking … ha ha ha …. it was an honest mistake.  I stuck one of the beers in the freezer to get nice and cold while I drank the other one.  Well….  soon after I finished the first beer, we finished dinner and moved onto dessert.  I completely forgot about the beer in the freezer.

The next day, I get an e-mail from my daughter saying I forgot my beer.  No, I left the extra beer at their house for them to drink.

But …. I did forget about the beer in the freezer…  kinda made a mess ….

Sorry Heather …. it won’t happen again!  I’ll drink a little so it won’t overflow!  Ha Ha Ha ….

Tags: Beer, Freezer

Sure!  My daughter Samantha had taken the Williams Sonoma magazine/catalog and clipped out wreath pictures she liked.  I went over to Michael’s Craft Store and cruised around for quite a while finding exactly what I wanted.  Samantha had circled things she liked about each wreath.  Once I had my wreath, leaves, flowers, twigs, etc … I headed home to start creating.   I take apart all of the items I buy and attach them to the wreath using thin wire.  Some pieces don’t need the wire to secure them, just stick them into the wreath and they will stay put.

Tags: Christmas Wreath

We move through everyday life so fast.  We all have so much to do.  Days speed by.  We all need to stop and look at the beauty of our world.  I was driving yesterday and looked at the beautiful clouds.  I took a picture.  I enjoyed them.  We all need to slow down and enjoy the clouds, a sunset, a smile, a loving partner, child or friend.

Tags: clouds

While camping down at San Elijo, we took a minute to drive up Highway 1 to the “Madd Potter” store.  We had been there once before and wanted to look at their fountain set-ups.  They have great pots and fountain set-ups.  While we were looking around we saw these palms, which had a bamboo look.

We decided to buy them and pick them up the next week after our camping weekend.  I took our pick-up truck down on Monday …. thinking both of the palms would easily fit.  You know, those boxes don’t look THAT big …  well ….  see for yourself -

 One at a time!  That brown thing in the truck is a huge pot.  I had to go back down the next morning and get the next one.

We bought the huge pot as we thought we might plant one of them in it ,,, but decided against it and planted both in the yard.  This was pretty tough … 24″ boxes!  Big holes to dig! 

We’re really happy with them!

If you live in Southern California and need great pots, plants, palms, etc… I would definately recommend The Madd Potter.

Oh yeah … and I also got this ..

Visit the Madd Potter HERE

The name of these palms - Chamaedorea plumosa

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