Tranquil Thurdays - An Early Morning at La Jolla Cove

Wildflowers Wednesday

It's a busy week, but I wanted to slip in a Wildflowers Wednesday post today, rather than a Tranquil Thursdays post tomorrow, because I will be sharing my Daring Cooks' Challenge tomorrow, and a French Fridays with Dorie post on Friday.

This past weekend, John and I took a day trip out to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and looped back around through the local mountains, where there was a recent dusting of snow.  The desert wildflowers were in bloom, although not as much as in some areas.  It was a relaxing day before the flurry of this week's activities.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Denise & John

Tranquil Thursdays - Crescent City

A few more photographs from our recent trip to New Orleans...

Tranquil Thursdays - Windansea Beach, La Jolla

The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide
I heard the first wave of the rising tide
Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;
A voice out of the silence of the deep,
A sound mysteriously multiplied
As of a cataract from the mountain's side,
Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep.
So comes to us at times, from the unknown
And inaccessible solitudes of being,
The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul;
And inspirations, that we deem our own,
Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing
Of things beyond our reason or control.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves

that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. 

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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