LEAVING TOMMOROW MORNING FOR HOME

The foothills look surreal, like they are a painting not a photo!

A couple more shots of the gorgeous desert that surrounds us here, the Ocotillos which I love are all blooming their red tips right now!

We will go to Bakersfield the first night and then to an RV park called the Lakes RV and Golf Resort in Chowchilla for two nights and a game of golf at that park, then to Red Bluff for two nights. Staying at Durango RV park which we stayed at on the way down. It is brand new and beautiful like the Springs. We will visit old town Red Bluff and then will just do overnighters after that and get home fairly fast from there.

Five months at the Springs and it did seem to go by pretty fast at the end!

We will be back here next year to camphost again, probably starting at the end of December and staying until mid April.

We again did so many fun social events this year and I regretfully did not record so much on my camera this year. But one thing I did that I really enjoyed was getting more involved in the art community here. Next year I look forward to taking classes with Ginger, the mosaic, clay and pottery instructor here. I did make one ceramic tile with her and it was very enjoyable to paint some fruit on it and see it after it was fired. Ginger did a demo and talk at one of the Art Guild luncheons and I won a gorgeous mosaic tiled mirror as the door prize. That is how I met her and I immediately knew I wanted to do some mosaic work, I love the colour and possibilities. I hope to try it at home this summer, I wonder who I can talk into doing some with me??

One More Update Long Overdue!!

The wildfowers are out!

The Ocotillo are blooming red on their tips now!

Just a car that drove through on a weekend, there are a few of these old babies turning up here now and then!

It is far to hectic here to do this blog in actuality, I barely have time to sit and seldom do! But one of those times I took this shot that I see from the front windshield of the motorhome, this evening the sky was not solid blue as usual!

We have had some visitors, Donalie and Dave and their friends from Point Roberts. They just came for the day as they were staying in the Palm Springs area for a week.

We showed them some of the desert sculptures. There are tons of these prehistoric sculptures in the Borrego Desert all within 10 minutes of where we are.

This link has a few more shots but hardly covers what is out there, there are many more! http://www.alanhaynes.com/gallery/Anza_Borrego_2-2009/

These are two shots that I took one day but I need to go out and shoot all of the sculptures one day!

Bruce and Audrey also came for a day of golf as they too were staying in the Palm Springs area.

And Judy and Johnny also got down here and spent a few days in Barrie's motorhome in our RV park, we filled every minute with seeing the best of what this area offers!! This church was on our drive around town, it is the most photographed and painted church here

Judy and Johhny posing at the pool

We had lunch at the Red Ocotillo in its new setting at the Palms at Indian Head hotel, still the best breakfast and lunch on the planet and view is of the desert and the pool while you eat on the dog friendly patio.

Here is another shot of my art group having lunch there. I have joined a painting group that meets Friday mornings and have had a lot of fun doing that when I can!

The next batch are from our 5 day trip to Puerto Penasco, Mexico. We drove our motorhomes down there. Barrie and Brenda and us and Bill and Lorrie were already there. We camped on the beach at the Reef Rv resort and the Reef Restaurant was there as well. We celebrated Barrie's birthday there, great shrimp and nicely presented.

We had lunch at a cute place one day, beer 2 for 2.50 and the same with some entrees so it was pretty cheap! Larry and I and the dogs walked the beach every morning to a hotel down the way for breakfast, nice walk for some exercise and the dogs loved the freedom and the sand!There is a pic of a Suguaro cactus with its inhabitants, the woodpeckers!