I'm going down memory lane

 Filoli Gardens...Click on pictures to enlarge

 Muir woods

and Napa Valley trail

I'm working on a card right now...that is only about half finished, and I had to walk away from it...
Can you tell that it is not going very well...Time to take a break...and maybe Day dream a bit instead!

This time of year, I always think back over my DREAM vacation.  My husband and I have done very little traveling through the years..  (There's this thing called budget...that has prevented us from taking too many vacations  smile).  However, I was fortunate enough to get to go on what I call my dream vacation back in 2007.  I live on the East Coast, and for me to get on a vacation to the West coast was something I thought I would never be able to do.  Thanks to family and friends who provided free lodging and some free meals, (and my Mother even paid for our plane fare as our Christmas gift)  We managed to get to California for a couple of weeks...Our longest vacation ever.  We were in Napa Valley, (My favorite)  near Pis-mo Beach, Solvang, and San Francisco.

I enjoyed almost everything about it, except the plane ride.  It was only my second time on a plane, and I hated it almost as much as my first trip on a plane.


I was visiting a blog yesterday...

http://www.blackcatsstudios.blogspot.com/

I found Liz's blog while I was visiting the Dream team's blogs     Dreamweaver stencils

(the link is on my side bar.

Liz posted a beautiful card she made using a Dream weaver stencil. The stencil reminded her of the wisteria at Filoli Gardens in California.  She immediately had me dreaming about my vacation in California, and visiting those beautiful gardens...I had to go and try to find  my pictures from the Gardens...

Another favorite place I visited was Muir woods, and the Napa Valley trail...

I hoped to post more photos...but, at the moment, I can't find where I saved those photos on my computer or the disc, I have them on.  (I told you I'm not too organized.  But I did find the discs that my SIL gave me of our vacation.  which has over 4000 photos on it...  I think it's going to take me some time to find the photos on those discs that I am looking for...LOL

so I am going to have post those another day...

I hope you enjoyed day dreaming with me today....

Thank you for visiting my blog...

Blessings,

Jill

Filoli Gardens page

Instead of a card today, I decided to post a scrapbook page, I made of Filoli Gardens. I'm not much of a scrapbooker, or much of a photographer...but I still hope you enjoy the page.

http://www.filoli.org/

6th folder, 6th picture

I have been tagged by Barbara at Serenity Gate. You can see her website here

My instructions were to go to my 6Th folder on my computer and find my 6Th picture in that folder, and post it to my blog. I'm also supposed to blog about the photo that I found there. I am slightly cheating, I am posting a photo from my 6Th folder, but it is photo #5, (Believe me, you don't want to see photo number 6, I am not much of a photographer and photo number 6 proves that!)

The photo that I am posting is from our vacation to California in April 2007. I live on the east coast and it was our very first trip to the west coast. I hope it won't be our last. We have not had the opportunity to travel much, and when we do...it's usually just a short distance from home and only for a weekend. The plane ride to California was only my second time on an airplane. (that was the only thing on the vacation that I did not enjoy) I get motion sickness, and I felt very claustrophobic on the plane, but I survived and my vacation was well worth having to go through being on a plane.

The photo is of Filoli gardens, Woodside, California. A Beautiful place to visit, we thoroughly enjoyed our time spent there, just wished we could have stayed longer. We were there on a day with perfect weather. The garden was just a sea of pink and purple blooms. Pink is my favorite color, so you know that I was awestruck by the beauty of the flowers. My husband is a much better photographer than I am...so later on, I hope to post some of his beautiful pictures of the garden.

"The Kiss of a sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth, one is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth." ~Dorothy Frances Gurney