Wonderful day and tasty produce at the farmer’s market this morning.
Salads…here we come.
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Volcano Lessons
Did the last eruption of the volcano in Iceland disrupt your travel plans? Our friends at Budget Travel offer some important advice to help you prepare if something like this happens again.
Go to the airport every day for the best shot at open seats…especially if you must get on a plane as soon as you can. The reason? There will be empty seats due to passengers missing connections. If you are at the airport, you may be able to take advantage of these.
Bring extra medications. If you are on a must have med, be sure to take extras with you.
Have a back up plan. Did you leave your pets with a friend or at a kennel? You need to call them. Is someone taking care of your house and assumes you will be home on a certain day? Call them, too.
Write down names and addresses of people you meet while traveling…especially those with whom you strike up a friendship. You may just be able to ask if you can rent their sofa for the night…and save some cash over the now higher priced hotels.
Good luck…
More from The Terraces
The Terraces Winery
Lunch at The Terraces Winery was spectacular…as usual.
Southern Italian fare combined with Terraces wine…what’s not to like?
Anybody know what these are?
I goofed and didn’t get a photo of the dessert before I ate it! You will always wonder what it was.
Next stage of growth in the vineyard…looking good.
Farmers Market San Francisco
Sundays by City Hall in San Francisco head to the Farmers Market. Vegetables picked early in the morning lay waiting for your dinner.
A kaleidoscope of flowers line the walkways…their scents mixing, their colors blending.
Wanting to take some home, my decision became harder the more I looked.
Exotic to…
a mixed blend…what ever should I buy?
San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers
Beach Blanket Babylon
Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, the longest running musical revue in theatre history, even has it’s own street sign. And worthy of more than just a street sign, this musical has performed to sold out audiences over 12,000 times.
Be prepared to laugh until your jaw hurts…to sing along with songs you just thought you knew…to watch the famous and infamous as you’ve never seen them before…to stare in amazement at those hats…those crazy HUGE hats.
No headline nor headliner is safe from this stage. Everyone from Tiger Woods (yes even his latest escapades) to Michael Jackson to Sarah Palin to Elvis to Oprah to the Jonas Brothers to the Obama’s to…the list goes on and on. And you just can’t quit laughing.
You walk out the door, still grinning and laughing to yourself at something you just remembered about the show. Then you think about those hats. How do they do that?
San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers
Stepping inside San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers is more than stepping into the Victoria-era building. Built in 1879, surviving the 1906 earthquake, lasting through numerous fires and the 1995 windstorms…the Conservatory is now an endangered monument.
Numerous galleries, all with native plants, await your journey. Smells overwhelm you as you linger in the Lowland Tropics.
So humid my lens kept fogging over…yet strangely realistic as your eyes seem to fog over the exact same way! More like a perfumed sauna complete with flowers at our beck and call, this area engulfed us in a blanket of warm moist air.
Orchids cling to tree bark, splendid in their colorful arrangements. Notice the drops of water on each petal.
Strange plants and trees reside in yet another part of the Conservatory. Spikes on this one really were sharp, begging to be touched.
More to come…
