local National Park

Good evening! i hope this night finds you well! :) i am here to share with you, some photos taken at the Joshua Tree National Park!
this is just some of the BEAUTY of the mountains and Joshua Trees!

here too, althought some people just don't see it.

this was taken at a spot called Quail Springs. just look at how big those boulders are!

Right now, it is the off season for most activities done with the Park Rangers, but this is one of the spots where they will teach you rock-climbing!

That's what this sign is telling us... how the Rangers will teach you safely!

Check out the size of this boulder!!

Here is another place where, in the Fall, Spring and Winter, the Rangers will teach safe Rock Climbing!

i just LOVE the view!

the arrows, in this photo, show where the sign is indicating the ACTUAL San Andreas Fault Line!!!

and from there, we trek higher still!!

Out there is Coachella Valley!

this sign shows where Palm Springs is located and other particulars of the Valley.

just me! :)

this photo asks "what is wrong with this view?" the answer is haze, which is from pollutions!

but it's still quite a STUNNING view!

my sweetie sure liked it!!

Then a couple from Los Angeles, asked us to take their picture and offered to take ours too! :)

WAYYYYYYYYyy down there is the parking lot and our Explorer!! hehe

Once i am down, of course, i take a photo showing all the way UP! lol

And last but not least, tonight, check out this rock and how it is PERFECTLY balanced!!

i have a few more to share with you, tomorrow so i hope you stop by! Thank you so VERY much for sharing this time together!! HUGS!! i will see you in the morn! ;)

First grapes & LOVELY home!

Good evening! i hope you are enjoying this evening! i am soo very excited to share with you tonight a couple of photos of our grapes! Now you may think, "oh well, they are JUST grapes!" but these are the first grapes we EVER grew ourselves!! i think next year, they may even be better since this is only the second year of the vine!

they are a bit on the puny size but they really are SWEET already!! YAYY!! :)

i remember when i was a young girl, my parents were friends with someone who had a well established grapevine, with a bench underneath and i would sit there and just dig on the aroma that filled the air!! :)
Oh here are some of the photos of that COOL house that had the yard sale this weekend!
here is a picture from under the covered porch, showing the open air porch on the left!!

and on the right is this wall.

The woman running the yard sale was happy to share the story of her father, who built the home! He moved there in his 60's (i think she said he was 63 or 67) and for 12 years, he just built and built and built on the ten acres there.
He built these impressive mortared walls everywhere! as islands, around trees out in back of the home.

and walls up to the second floor.

up to and sided with gates.

EVERYWHERE! and it was HEAVEN!

here is the home itself, with it's MORE than six car garages!!

i say more than, cause each garage was at least two cars deep in!! this place was AWESOME with trees all over!

and wishing wells.

along the driveway too!

And as much as we didn't EVER want to leave, time to go was all too soon but we saw this on the way out! i don't think it was a part of the home we were at's property but these buildings were COOL just the same!

we also saw this place, which also seemed abandoned (there are certainly plenty of those out here!! abandoned homes all over!)

the windows were slim and long, i hope you can see that in these photos! it wasn't easy getting a shot of this place through the vegetation!

this place was pretty COOL too! all these homes were on one of the entrance roads that lead into Joshua Tree National Park and quite ritzy! Many of them having Jaguars AND porsches or Mercedes in front of their homes!

Or they were tucked away in the rocks, like this one.

Stop back tomorrow to see the shots we took at the National Park, since we were so close anyway! hehe It is a BEAUTIFUL place and i am sure you will enjoy it too! :)
thank you so very much for sharing this time!! i will see you in the morning!! :D HUGS!

Sunday bargains & yard sales

Good evening to you!! i apologize for posting so late but DH and i took advantage of the day with a WONDERFUL day trip! will tell you about that tomorrow, cause tonight it's Sunday's bargains!!
But first i have to show you this INCREDIBLE bench/table that if i owned would be where i put my telephone!! it is totally COOL!

And to show you the close up of the bridge work on it.

and this one if you look closely, you will see fish in like a creek with some flowers by them!

We didn't have the heart to look for a price tag! lol
Anywayssss, onto the FUN!! :)
Books, of course, lol at 50 cents a piece, and the vendor GAVE us two of them FREE too!

i found this very COOL flower pot. i LOVE the detail on it!

and the other side is COOL too! :)

Next we found this mule cart and it even caught DH's eye, for just a buck! :)

Then we found this framed poster of California flowers that i ADORED!

Then we found a yard sale and got this stuff for $12.00 total!
quite a few red and silver square charger plates.

this CUTE purse.

these CUTE wall pieces.

And this AWESOME necklace! Just look at how COOL it looks and it also really looks easy to make too!

Then we found this really BEAUTIFUL home at another yard sale over on one of the roads that leads to the Joshua Tree National Park. i took pictures of the home and its surroundings since it was soo unique. The lady who lived there was HAPPY to tell me the story of the home too! i will share that, too, later this week! you will LOVE it too! :)
but for now we bought only $9.00 worth of stuff there but it was FUN! :)
first off are TWO boxes filled with tiles for a dollar each. they are just pretty brown tiles that i didn't see the photo of them that i took. (shrugs shoulders) but ANYWAYSSSss, we found these items there!

and this frog planter.

this brass pheasant type bird.

all these FUN things for around the pond.

And finally, ALL these cards.

Well, that is it for this weekend! i just LOVE shopping with you! hehe :) Thank you so very much for sharing this time!! HUGS!! i will see you in the morning!! :D