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Palm Desert

All the Californians Do It

by Kay~Kacey on 2/28/2008

They paint their nails…
painted toe nails
To match the flowers…

Who knew???
painted nails match flowers

Pretty in Pink-or the Day of the Pink Flowers

pretty pink flowers

I don’t know why the colors of the flowers out here seem more vivid! As a total aside, my sister once told me that I’m not a pink person. I’ve been obsessed with pink ever since. I wear pink tshirts. Pink shoes. Pink socks. Pink everything.

pink California flowers

SuperGuy asked to borrow the camera again. But I was too busy taking all these pics of the pretty pink flowers. He seems like he’s getting a bit annoyed with me. I mean, the camera was an anniversary present we bought for each other this past year. I should let him use my our camera sometime, shouldn’t I?

But all these flowers call my name. SuperGuy is patient. I’m sure he can wait for his turn.
pink and orange flowers

I can’t even imagine living in a place like this. Where the views take your breath away. The flowers scream with color. The sky is so blue it looks like it’s been photoshopped. The grass is that perfect green they call Grass Green in a box of crayola crayons. I’m going to just pretend this is my real life. I’m going to ignore the taunting of the return plane tickets. They must not really be for me.

Don’t forget to send me the link to your photo of the month for February!

Introducing Summer Weather

by Kay~Kacey on 2/26/2008

I give you summer weather. Green grass. Blooming flowers. Mountains. Blue skies. And a fabulous lack of snow or ice. I give you Palm Desert, California. Behold and enjoy.
palm springs mountains
purple flowers in desert
I don’t know what it is, but I like it. It’s like a climbing hedge flower.
colorful desert flowers
These are so bright, they almost hurt your eyes to look at them!

I’m out visiting my parents for a week. Gotta love parents who go some place warm for the winter. We left in a snow storm yesterday–along with delays for de-icing the plane. Then landed in this gorgeous wonderland. Well, someone has to do. Might as well be me.

SuperGuy keeps asking when he gets a turn at the camera…”when I’m finished with it, dear.”

Now, I wish people were not so greedy with their wireless out here. It’s hard to steal borrow it when they do stuff like encrypt their wireless connection :mrgreen: I keep losing the connection when the wind picks up too. I wander around the house trying to find the best spot. So as long as I keep finding a connection, I’ll be back with more pics tomorrow. Keep posting your winter pics if you want…I’ll just look and them and smile 😆

And if I had Country Girl’s macro lens, I’d be so much happier with all these colorful flowers!