Tag Archives: Camarillo

Mosaic Monday ~ Fall

 

I’m in the Seattle area for about 10 days and I was so pleased to find some fall color in my yard. There is not a lot of fall color around the area yet but I appreciate any and all I see. My blueberry bush and our Chinese Flame Tree are contributing nicely to the season. The photo in the center of the collage is from an antique store in Camarillo, Ca.

Mary at Little Red House is our hostess for Mosaic Monday. She is a wonderful photographer so head on over and see more Mosaics or to link up with your very own mosaic…

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Outdoor Wednesday ~

Please visit Susan at A Southern Daydreamer to see the great outdoors around Bloggy World.

 

On my way home from my morning walk with Willow I spotted this Egret in the most peculiar spot.

 

This is a patch of dirt just below the 101 Freeway in Camarillo that eventually runs into some farmland north of here.

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Friday’s Fave Five ~ It’s June?

If it’s Friday it’s time for Favorites! Thanks to Susanne at Living to Tell the Story for hosting this weekly event.

My Five this week are all about some of my favorite things about the area I am living in here in Southern California.

Let’s get the food taken care of right off the bat!

#1. I love the amazing taste of strawberries fresh from the fields that I can buy at a local strawberry stand. So much more flavor then the grocery store strawberries.

#2. In nearby Somis there is a family owned Nuthouse where we buy our nuts. They really have an amazing variety. Dear is always happy to “drive me to the nuthouse”.

 

#3. The Camarillo Library has the best Friends of the Library bookstore I have ever been in. Here’s what I bought this week. The magazines were all 25 cents each. The 3 books on cd were $10.00 each. Pricey for me but well worth it for our upcoming road trip to Seattle the end of June. Books on cd make the hours on the road go by faster and help to keep me awake when it’s my turn to drive. I’ve never read P.D. James so I hope his Death of An Expert Witness will keep my interest. I’m looking forward to hearing The Prisoner of Azkaban instead of reading it again. Dear is a fan of most Robin Cook books so Foreign Body is for his listening pleasure.  The TeaTime book just looks like a fun read. I was happy to lay down the cash for all these to support the local library.

 

#4. Thrift Store Shopping. I really enjoy treasure hunting in thrift stores. I’m seasoned enough that I can walk away from great deals if I don’t really need them. Who am I kidding? Most things I buy at Thrift stores I do not need. That said… this week I found these dessert plates from Germany for 69 cents each. The napkin rings that cleaned up OK were $1.75 for all 7 of them.

 

#5. How very blessed I am. I can drive a short distance from my condo up or down the coast and discover new beaches. This is my latest discovery, El Matador State Beach. This beach is south of us in the northern part of Malibu. I’ll be sharing more photos from this great beach next week…

Looking forward to blog hopping to see your favorites.

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Outdoor Wednesday ~ Walk with Willow…

It’s almost time to join in on Outdoor Wednesday. Susan at A Southern DayDreamer is our hostess for this weekly event. My outdoor photos were taken on a walk with my bloggy friend Willow in her neighborhood. These were taken on Monday of this week in Southern California.

This was a day that we spotted deer again. After uploading this photo I was surprised at how Fall like the colors were.

Same hour different scenery with more Spring like colors.

Don’t forget to look up. I love this view of the tree against the blue sky!

For more Outdoor Wednesday please visit Susan here.

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Round Robin Challenge ~ By the Numbers…

This challenge is brought to us by the suggestion of Jill at South Bay Soliloquey, she wrote…

“How about something called “By the Numbers” as a topic? Anything showing numbers: signs, a child holding up fingers to show how old he is, a number on a shirt, house numbers, whatever…”
-Jill

So here are a couple photos from my archives from a trip to San Francisco and a photo I took this week right here in Camarillo.

 

 

This middle shot is from Camarillo, California.

 

So what say you Robins…Shall we all meet for a Pint after all this hard work running around town looking for numbers?!!

The Photo Challenge Blog can be found here!

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Thy Holy Spirit, Lord, Alone

Thy Holy Spirit, Lord, Alone

Thy Holy Spirit, Lord, alone,
Can turn our hearts from sin;
His power alone can sanctify
And keep us pure within.

Thy Holy Spirit, Lord, alone
Can deeper love inspire;
His power alone within our souls
Can light the sacred fire.

Thy Holy Spirit, Lord, can bring
The gifts we seek in prayer;
His voice can words of comfort speak,
And still each wave of care.

Thy Holy Spirit, Lord, can give
The grace we need this hour;
And while we wait, O Spirit, come
In sanctifying power.

Words: Fan­ny Cros­by, 1885; some hymn­als show the au­thor as Fan­ny’s pseu­do­nym, Hen­ri­et­ta Blair. The hymnal I found this hymn in did show the author as Henrietta Blair.

I added the photo of the stream with running water after our sermon this morning about the Holy Spirit.

John 7:37-39 ~ On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Looking At the Sky…

 

All these shots were taken on Wednesday February 11th. The Top two were taken just after Sunrise and the bottom shot was taken at about 9:30 that night.

For more Looking at the Sky on Friday photos click over to Crazy Working Mom…

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Looking at the Sky on Friday

 

We had some beautiful skies this past week in Southern California. This is a view from a field behind our housing development. The mountains you see are the northwestern end of the Santa Monica Mountains.

For more sky photos visit Crazy Working Mom.

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Outdoor Wednesday ~ “To Market, to Market”

I’m a little late in joining in for Outdoor Wednesday this week hosted by Susan at A Southern Day Dreamer but better late than never.

To market, to market to buy a fat pig;
Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.
To market, to market, to buy a fat hog;
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.

Dear and I decided to walk to the Farmer’s Market that our hometown has every Saturday in Old Town Camarillo from 8:00 to Noon. As we set out we passed these tumbleweeds that are taking over the sidewalk. What a fun sight to see tumbleweeds tumbling through town when they dry up and the wind blows. Brings back some childhood memories for me.

It was a drizzly morning. The drizzle does not deter Dear and I from walking because of our years in the Seattle area. We do everything in the rain up there and most of the time without an umbrella!

A rare thing to see raindrops on the vegetation in Southern California.

Our walk to the Market is convoluted because we are separated from the main part of town by the railroad tracks that run up the coast of California. We have to jog and go over an overpass built for people to get to the train station. Here’s Dear sporting his new Tilley hat!

 

See the church across the freeway? That’s where we are headed.

We make it to Ventura Blvd. which is the main street through Old Town Camarillo.

Great timing as we approach the market.

We’re hoping to find some red and white flowers for the dinner we’re having for my brother’s birthday later on this day.

 

Success! On the way back I had to snap these shots of St. Mary Magdalen Church. A landmark in Camarillo which was built by the Camarillo Family.

 

 

The sun is getting brighter as we approach home. The Santa Monica Mountains are camaflouged today by these great clouds.

 

Just enough sun for Dear to spot this great spider web on the tumbleweed we pass on the way home!

For more Outdoor shots visit Susan at A Southern Day Dreamer!

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Sky Watch ~ Pismo Beach & Camarillo

 

Pismo Beach is on the Central Coast of California. Dear and I had an overnight escape here this last Sunday night. The skies were clear and bright.

 

This photo I took at dawn on Monday in Pismo Beach reminds me more of a painting than a photograph.

 

Dawn in Camarillo one morning this week.

 

Late yesterday afternoon on our walk in the neighborhood. Rain has been promised in the morning hours.

 

As I’m posting these on Thursday morning the predicted rain is falling steadily and freshening things up in Southern California.

For more SkyWatch photos from around the world visit the official SkyWatch blog.

Photobucket is holding all my photos I stored with them from 2007-2015 hostage unless I pay them a lot of money. I’m slowly cleaning up many posts from this time period and deleting their ugly grey and black boxes with a ransom request. Such a time consuming bother.