the bluebird of happiness visited our garden today …

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riding out the perfect storm …

thinking of everyone in Hurricane Sandy‘s path…

 if you don’t hear from me for Tea on Tuesday tomorrow you’ll know we lost power…

hoping for the best as winds will pick up this evening…

thank you so much for all of your good wishes…

~*Take Care Dear Ones*~

do what you must do…

Pixlr is such a fun photo altering tool and so easy even I can use it…

my photo above was transformed with a couple of clicks…

…childhood wisdom

Love this building wall from a photo we took in Asheville, North Carolina combined with a favorite quote…

Pixlr makes adding a frame and words super simple and it’s free…

stormy skies in the Virginia countryside…

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SLO Tea

thought I’d take you traveling for tea today since my thoughts seem to keep going back to our recent getaway…

SLO stands for San Luis Obispo…

I did a Silent Sunday post that showed a few photos of this neat town here…

we had a lay over in San Francisco and boarded a small 30 seat propeller plane to continue our journey a little further down the California coast…

there was plenty of time on our stopover to get a loaf of our favorite Boudin’s sour dough bread…

landing at San Luis Obispo airport helped trim about four hours of driving time which was most welcome after traveling the skies all day from Virginia…

we found their one baggage claim carousel a pleasant surprise…

SLO was cited as one of this country’s happiest places by the Oprah Winfrey Show…

home of Cal Poly…

we began and ended our California getaway there…

a fun little college town with nice shops and a creek running through it…

we stumbled quite by chance on gum alley…

very interesting…

we did a walk by and kept our distance with no urge to actually walk down the alley…

if I haven’t grossed you out too much let’s keep walking and visit Kreuzberg’s Coffeehouse and Books…

I had a nice refreshing Kombucha and Mr Magpie had a cappucino…

Loved the lamps hung upside down from the ceiling and the perfect coffee house atmosphere…

We write our epitaphs on walls with gum,
And though it may be meaningless to some,
We have a symbol of our gummy youth,
Whose walls may not tell some glorious truth,
But eloquently speak of better times,
Of cruising, shopping sprees, and nursery rhymes.
If gum is all you see upon our wall,
Your mind is closed, your spirit shrunk and small,
Though memories of youth may never last,
Gum Alley is our present to our past.” ~”M”, Arroyo Grande

well alrighty then…

wishing you all a very Happy T Tuesday…

I am still finding reentry back into “real” life pretty challenging on several fronts…sigh

Silent Sunday: San Luis Obispo, California