Sinful

Yes, you're seeing it right. Six layers of sinfully rich chocolate cake. This dessert is a slice of the Mother Lode cake served at Claim Jumper restaurant in Fontana, California, my next stop after Palos Verdes. A friend from my high school and her husband took me there....and no, we didn't order this. Took this shot through the display case.

What do you say? How many calories are here?

Leaving Palos Verdes....

Am on my way out of Palos Verdes, but by car.... Thank you, Tash, of PALOS VERDES DAILY PHOTO for a wonderful, nostalgic stay.

SUNDAY BRIDGES--for dummies....

Back to Sunday Bridges for me, totally by accident. With Tash of PALOS VERDES DAILY PHOTO, I visited a library book sale.

I'm not a card player, so I didn't buy this book, but here it is for you....

See other bridges at Louis La Vache's

SUNDAY BRIDGES.

The Madonna Inn

My very good friend in San Luis Obispo took me to lunch at the city's famous Madonna Inn, which was delicious. Here are some of the Inn's glass drinking goblets.

See other reflections at

REFLECTIONS WEEKEND.

SKYWATCH FRIDAY--Blimp over Palos Verdes

Here I am in Palos Verdes, California, where I'm being graciously hosted by Tash of Palos Verdes Daily Photo. Tash took me for dinner last night at Admiral Risty's by the ocean. What a view....and meal....and a blimp to boot.

See other skies, and perhaps a blimp or two, at

SKYWATCH FRIDAY.

The Mystery Spot

Moving right along on my California visit route. On the way to a friend who lives in San Luis Obispo, I stopped at the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz. A fun place, even though it's really based on an optical illusion rather than 'strange gravitational or magnetic forces'. Waters flow uphill, balls roll upward, tall people become shorter while short ones appear taller...

And when the tour's over you get a free bumper sticker....

ABC WEDNESDAY -R is for Road Trip

Sniff, sniff...leaving Napa and my friends....it was wonderful. Now on to see other friends!

See other R's on ABC WEDNESDAY.

The effects of wine...

Like my friend Isobel, I am a thrift shop junkie. They pull me in like a magnet... I bought a few things in a Napa store, but Isobel lucked out with these wild, wild sandals....

Not Italy....

Not Italy, not even Europe, but close. This is El Castillo, a winery in Saint Helena, California, where our merry group tasted and bought wine.

Wine tasting, of course!

Napa is wine country, so our happy group of ten 'Aix' friends set off in pursuit of a good glass of wine...of course we found several.

Don't you just love the shirts we had made? "Aix" friends=forever friends.
Well-aged, too.

You're in good hands.

A little sun, a little champagne, and lots of friends. Arrived in Napa for a 43-year reunion with friends I studied with in Aix-en-Provence in '68-69. And our director and his wife made it, too! A votre sante!