My Kind of Day

Today was a good day! I slept in until after 7:30; had fresh sweet California strawberries, yogurt and granola for breakfast; washed a couple loads of jeans -- and hung them on the line; followed Forry down to Jamul Automotive to pick him up after he dropped off the brown pickup for an oil change; had a leftover hamburger patty with avocado slices for lunch; then read for a while and took a nap!

About three o'clock we decided to get a little more ambitious and went to look for birds and flowers. We went up Barrett Smith Road where I have been intrigued by this eucalyptus tree which was so badly damaged by the fire, but just keeps on putting out green leaves:

Many of the burned bushes are the same way. The tops may be burned and dead, but the leaves are coming from the bottom:

It seems as though everytime we are out and about, we see different flowers. Today we saw some datura:

Some lupine:

And this little beauty blooming along the road -- I have no idea what it is:


We drove on over to Otay Lake where we saw snowy egrets, mallard ducks, coots, California gulls, and trees full of double crested comorants:

We were puzzled by the comorants at first, because we had not seen them in breeding plumage before. They now have impressive -- almost an inch long -- white tufts on their black heads.

We went on into Eastlake and had a wonderful Mexican shrimp dinner, complete with a shared piece of flan.

My kind of day!