Blooms, S-W progress, twins

just outside the gates at Monterey Dunes Colony, huge yellow bush lupine

 

Blooms at the Albany Bulb dog park

Sandy now can go off-leash! Very well behaved...

Blooms at China Camp in San Rafael

QR codes are everywhere

  

Blooms in Tilden Park

Blooms at Monterey Dunes: this is a big year at the beach, best we can remember

Salinas-side coutryard

new plant to replace the one that "drownd" during the monsoon season of 2023

in the dunes

lots of rabbits survived Easter

Sherwin-Williams progress on the park 

Across the street from the loft

Pic by SS in/from unit 312: a hardscape for small kids to play on and a Portaloo for older kids to use

Below: the Berkeley-Oakland-Emeryville greenway will run  parallel to the train tracks, 

Pic taken from the Bridge to Nowhere Big dog park on left, small dog park on right (or vice versa)

making the parking garage next to The Emery look pretty

last The Emery apartment building, can't see it except from across the train tracks

The mushrooms that sprouted early in the monsoon season have morphed again into smaller, paler versions, including somehow "blossoming" between the stones

The Twins and their parental units get to visit 1221 Trestle Glen Road; the old house is going back up for sale and the couple that bought it from THB and DB were nice enough to invite us over for a peek after the first open house. The twins are ready to move in!

THB didn't take many pics, the place is very similar to how we left it in 2007

This time around they "staged" the garage!

Hair cuts: The twins go fo matching "do's" in the classic biz woman hair styles

K gets to give E and twins a tour of the house she grew up in. The foliage is in full bloom and the trees are way larger than when we moved on to the Loft 16 years ago

THB slides in the pic looking like he has no clue as to what is happening

Twins helping Grandma celebrate her b'day

Twins, Twins, Twins

twins watch TV "bunk bed" style

warmer in pool than out

twins visit the "open once a month" model railroad museum in Salinas

Twins get a lesson on how to run their own train from "old rails" 

Another farm animal comes to visit the courtyard of th beach house; snake has been spotted that it even has a name: Bruce

Twins warming up for their heat ath the Carmel Valley annual surfing contest weekend

heat warming up, they are next up

nice ride eveen if it isn't the 100 Foot Wave at Nazare Portugal (2 seasons now streaming)

Twins at First Awakings in Pacific Grove before the surf contest, carbo loading

Jas trying to show Cessy how to do it with utensils 

Twins at the Live Earth Farm Discovery

Visit to Richard Shaw's studio

THB and Richard Shaw, the guy on the left is a ceramics artist, the guy on the right is wearing a t-shirt with a caricuture of Shaw on it

one entrance to Richard's studio

there are two of these vintage cars in garage

Dinner at Ju-Ni, four people share a sushi chef and there is  a birthday celectration for this guy and DB. Don't think she is really a foot taller, she must be standing up.