At the end of April spent a few days in northern California, visiting friends.
Here are some of my photos from that trip.
A stop over in the Seattle airport,
just at sunset,
a local craft beer and garlic shrimp!
Davis, CA, is a lively bicycle friendly university town with a wonderful Farmers Market Wednesday afternoons & Saturday mornings. Several down town bike shops that rent, but I borrowed one to do my exploring ... found a book exchange mailbox type 
stand...take one and leave one...so I did!...
not far from this huge cactus corner plant!
The Davis Arboretum is a quite a beautiful place, dedicated to the display of native woody plants of the Southeastern United States, and a 3.5 mile loop trail. I have hiked it in the past, but on this hot afternoon, I found a quiet shaded spot to sit underneath palms by the creek, not only the peaceful mallards or other flickering birds but one very determined squirrel 
to get my oatmeal cookie crumbs..and visiting a scrub jay.
Davis is also about 1-1.5 hours from Napa, San Francisco, and Lake Tahoe....a mid week drive to Napa included the Hendry Winery,and Chandon Winery. 
Exposure to the desert country
of Utah and Nevada very different from what either of us are familiar with....one highlight was a Sunday afternoon half day, 
3 hour trail ride for Amelia and I.
.saw the Three Patriarchs,
the Beehives, a breathtaking trip through beautiful cactus gardens, the Virgin River, the Court of the Patriarchs, a trip around the Sandbench Trail, gradually ascending 500 feet giving a spectacular view of the Southern end of Zion National Park....the head wrangler named Curley gave much of the local history.
...also did some sort trail hikes on own and saw a pair of wild turkeys.
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