A Chilly, Rainy Day

It was downright chilly today and damp, too! I know California badly needs rain, but we've gotten spoiled by the sunshine...

We went to Houses 2 & 3 this morning to count doors for knobs and doorstops and kitchen cupboards for handles. We measured closets for clothes rods and shelves and checked out bathrooms for fixtures to match the faucets.

House # 2 is very close to the border. We've seen lots of different flowers blooming in the area, so today we took time on the way back to camp to get some pictures. This plant seems to only bloom in cracks in the rocks:

But you don't see how delicate its flowers are until you stop and take a close look:

This plant has just started showing up the last week or so -- or maybe I didn't notice it until it started to bloom.

Its flowers are pretty gorgeous too. (Even if the wind blew them out of focus a bit...)

Some of the roadsides are just a mass of flowers:

We were going to head on into town to start buying fixtures, but remembered that the crews were quitting at noon today and the cooks had fixed spaghetti. We headed back to camp intending to go right after lunch, but by the time lunch was done, all the vehicles were vaccumed and washed, certificates handed out, etc., it was too late in the day to get it all done in a reasonable time frame.

So, there really wasn't anything better to do on a late rainy afternoon, but to take a nap!