May 25, 2013
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Travels: California Visit Photos
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.
Comments (3)
I lived in Sacramento for about 5 years in the 80's. I finally caught myself telling people that it was a wonderful place to live because one could drive for 2 hours and get to wonderful places (like Napa, Tahoe, Reno, the bay area, etc), compared to LA where you drive for 2 hours and are still in LA. Nonetheless, there are wonderful places within easy reach of Davis (itself pretty wonderful) and Sacto!
@slmret - I am fortunate to have friends in Davis, usually have a yearly visit and have gone to several conferences in Sacramento. The airport there has expanded but I have also been stuck there due to cancelled flights.Spring and fall visits extend the warm weather season. Love walking the arboretum in Davis and visits to Napa....you might like a previous blog entry when had a chance to help with grapes and beginnings of wine making... http://bonnieupnorth.xanga.com/713128489/from-%e2%80%9cgrubby%e2%80%9d-to-%e2%80%9csticky%e2%80%9dcrushing-600-lbs-of-syrah-grapes/
@bonnieupnorth - Thanks for the link to your prior post -- how interesting that was -- but I can imagine how sticky and gooey, too! I did numerous tours of the vineyards and the storage facilities at the various wineries -- many of them are no longer there, or have changed hands by now! It was alaways a very interesting place to go -- I am anxious to go back sometime, but it may now have to wait until after I get back from a visit to the polar bears
!