December 20, 2007

Lemons


Lemons
Originally uploaded by Skeller5
Today I pulled all these many lemons off my tiny lemon tree, to get them before the rain could knock them to the ground to rot. Funny "winter" we have here in SoCal.

Will he make it? Without getting wet?




December 19, 2007

Making Christmas Cookies



Making Christmas Cookies
Originally uploaded by Skeller5
We interrupt this "beach week" to show you today's mess, errr, project. Pictured are the clean-up crew, the cook's helper, and the resulting product. Yes, Papa, there will be some leftovers awaiting your SoCal arrival. ;-)

The Reason I Love Being Married to This Man...

He jumps for joy each time he sees me. Hehe.

December 18, 2007

Me and My Dudes ... Outtakes


Who is that lady with the short hair??? (after 40+ years living with long hair, I'm still doing a double-take when I see myself with short hair). While the Big Dude was taking our picture, a nice jogging man came along and offered to take a picture of all of us together. And following is the resulting photo...


I so totally wish I could have been taking a picture of him taking a picture of us. But since I couldn't, please allow me to paint y'all a word picture of this nice man who had been jogging who was now taking our picture. He was old. Quite old. But jogging. Shirtless. Wearing a Santa hat. With jingling bells tied on his running shoes and Santa hat. And his running shorts were very SHORT, fire-engine RED, and quite tight. This photograph is pretty merit-less. But the memory that it evokes of the friendly, quirky photographer will always make me smile. :-)

December 17, 2007

All Beach, All Week....

Strands Beach


Strands Beach
Originally uploaded by Skeller5
These seagulls were just chillin', minding their own business, enjoying the beautiful sunset .... when along came a boy. My boy. :-)

December 16, 2007

Peeking into the Canyon Cave


My absolute favorite picture from this year. And the Big Dude gets the photo credit :-)

December 14, 2007

California Christmas Silliness



California Christmas Silliness
Originally uploaded by Skeller5
I soooo loved MizBooshay's Christmas ornament in the snow, that I had to throw an ornament of my own onto the grass, into the iceplant, and onto a fishtail palm. Here's my California interpretation of her Wisconsin beauty. :-)

December 13, 2007

Never Far from his K'Nex


For additional proof of his "boyness", see dirt under fingernails and scrapes on nose.

December 6, 2007

Spectacular, Gigantic, Glorious Waves





These photos don't even begin to do the scene justice. We didn't stay long at the beach, because I wasn't convinced that a big wave wasn't going to wash away my littlest Dude whilst my back was turned snapping photos.