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.