Cheers

I did it again.

I went out and bought a nice bottle of champagne to toast the new year, came home, opened the wine fridge ... and realized I never had the bottle of champagne I bought last year. Or the one I bought the year before.

If I have one new year's resolution it's this: to make more time to open and drink nice bottles of champagne.

Caption this photo (#48)

I really need help with this one...

Wait... where'd it go?!

I swear there was a rabbit right there when I pointed the camera.

A View from the Altos

Speaking of Monterey Hills, I have a new piece going up at Patch sometime this morning. In the mean time, check out winter in Southern California. I know I've included many versions of this vantage point before, but I never get tired of the view.

Great Staging

I hadn't seen many old cars out and about since the storm last week. Then, today, I spotted this one in front of Fremont Centre Theatre. Bravo!

Musing About a Winter Sunset

I think the gold peeking through the clouds is summer waiting to return. (In Southern California, it's never too far away...)

Merry Christmas to All

With love!

Happy or Scary?

I'm going with scary. Because nothing is scarier than a clown ... except maybe a clown who jumps out at you when you least expect it.

Caption this photo (#48)

I need a little holiday help with this one...

and raining and raining and raining...

Ok. Seriously. Enough already.

It's still raining...

and raining, and raining, and raining, and raining, and raining...

(By the way, for musings on a rainy Christmas, check out my latest at Patch It will be up sometime before lunch.)

Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

Honestly, I went out with the intention of capturing some festive Christmas images and I got this instead. It's not my fault. It's been raining nonstop for days. The curbs are flooded. The parrots are cranky. The roses are hanging their little rose-heads, weighted by the strain with bruised little petals that will never make it all the way to the rose parade.

This is Southern California's version of a white Christmas. It's just, well, melted. And remember how Frosty was when he was melted? Yeah, well, that's why you get this picture today.