Climbing to new heights

Here's where I spent much of the afternoon yesterday, inspecting catwalks. Beautiful day for sky walking...

Daffodils

Glad I took this photo of my daffodils (from Daffodil Days) last week. They only lasted a few days, but they were lovely. Carnations last better - those are left from Valentine's day, believe it or not!



And, this must be one of the best locations on earth for rainbows. I caught this one last Thursday or Friday - a strangely non-rainy day. I think Sacramento is about to break a record for the most consecutive days with rain. The news folks were talking about it this morning.

Coco View

Here's another peek. And look...they're having a wedding, just a little while later! The date stamp is off; all this happened Sunday, not Saturday.

High maintenance

I just realized today that I've become high maintenance. Nearly every other day, I'm at the indoor tanning place, working on getting a teeny bit of color before I go to Honduras. Yesterday, I put down money for another month AND bought some more of that special lotion one must use.

Today, I had a cut and weave, which I do every couple of months, now. I keep it my natural color, just with most of the gray gone. Fortunately it's somewhere between wavy and curly, so I can just style it with my fingers. Lots of scrunching.

And then there are the nails -- every three weeks, like clockwork. I'll have the toes done before we go to Honduras, because flip-flops are the standard there. Can't be having raggedy feet!

And make-up. I wear make-up all the time now. Mainly the eyes. I only do foundation and blush for going out. And I'm really bad at remembering lip color. I usually just use a colored gloss for everyday.

Used to just pull my hair back in a braid and go. How times have changed!

Chicago!

We went to see Chicago The Musical on Tuesday night in Sacramento. It was absolutely amazing! The level of dancing, singing and acting was so high - what one expects from a Broadway touring company, I know. And dinner at The Broiler was also incredible. I had the "surf and turf" special: prawns and filet medallions with Concannon potatoes.

What a terrific evening!

Where I want to be...

Coco View! That's Poncho on the deck rail.

View from the window

Isn't this a pretty bit of rainbow? It actually was a double, but only one shows in these images. And, as another bonus, the bushes completely block the "view" of the freeway!

I got a bonus yesterday, but Cat's car found out about it and broke down. Hopefully it's nothing too serious.

And the sun breaks through!

I was out back inspecting fire extinguishers and oil containment and couldn't resist snapping the sky. Isn't it glorious?!

Yesterday was stormy as heck. I drove back from my Accordion Works rehearsal in Berkeley and rather regretted having gone at all. Most people drove conservatively (45-50 mph), but there was that insane minority going 70 or so and throwing up great waves of water on the rest of us. Several times I hit sheets of water and could feel my tires letting go of the pavement. Loads of fun.