Sabbath Afternoon Walk With Mom Harty

We have been visiting Mom Harty every Sabbath and after church and lunch we take her for a walk. We have been going to a different park in the are of Loma Linda, Reddings, and all the other towns around that area. It has been fun taking walks with Mon Harty.
For this walk we took the camera. Gordon had the camera and took all the pictures so he is not in any of the pictures.

Starting our walk

Mom Harty has a lot of stories to share

View of the mountains to one side

This picture shows the path we were walking with the view of the mountains

View of the valley to the other side

A Sunday at the Pancake House

About one sunday a month, we go to the Pancake House for breackfast. This Sunday, we decided to take pictures. The palce was very full and we had to wait. It was a beautiful sunny day so we decided to wait outside.

The wait was long so we decided to sit down

Us waiting to be called to have our breackfast

Freshly squized grapefruit

A delicious big omelett, pancakes buckwheat pancakes and french toast

A very satisfy Zulita after eating all that breackfast. She is ready to go for a walk

After the storms

After the a series of storms, mountains around Loma Linda were full of snow. We had never seen them like this, only on the Loma Linda postcards in the stores. Yes, the snow is in the mountains, not were we are. Down here we had rain storms:-)
But this is not the end of winter. There are some more rain and storms prediction coming.

A view of the beautiful San Bernardino mountains from in front of Stew and Linda's house in Loma Linda

The mountains were just spectacular and beautiful!

A tree in front of Stew and Linda's house was already starting to bloom

We went to play Frisbee at a nearby park. The ground and the grass was very wet.
A shot of Erick and Gordon playing Frisbee

Andrew

Linda, Erick and Andrew playing Frisbee

The park had a view of the mountains

Snowy mountains at sunset

Hiking the Hills of San Pasqual

One January Sunday that was not raining we went to the hills surrounding the San Pasqual Valley behind Escondido for a hike.

The hiking path we did went along hills along the San Pasqual Valley.

Gordon resting at one of the rocks along the path

It feels so good to be here! All the open space and fresh air is just perfect.

One section of the hike had a lot of cacti along the path. It was full of bunches/group of cacti like this.

See the cacti plants continuing up the hill behind Gordon.

We hiked to the top of this hill full of cacti

Here is Zulita resting among the cacti. She liked being there:-)
Very different and unique surroundings

Since the trail went along the valley mountains. There was always a view of the San Pasqual Valley. Notice the valley at the distance behind the cacti.

Some of this cactus prickly things hurt Zulita. Bad cactus:-(

The higher we hiked the larger view of the San Pasqual Valley we saw

This valley is very well used for agriculture. Beautiful valley!

Driving the Back Roads of Temecula

Took advantage of a January Sunday that was not raining and decided to just cruse on the hills/mountains behind Temecula. We came upon this lake and a dam.

Can't remember the name of the lake and dam. It was a private lake so we were not able to go down and get closer to the water.

We did explored the dam some. It felt high up there on the dam.
Can't remember the name of the lake since I did not write it down.
Not sure how we got here. Wondering if we can find it again.

The back roads behind Temecula is not a flat area. They are full of hills, mountains, canyons, and paths everywhere we looked.

Me next to our faithful car

We came to lot's of little towns.
The town of Julian was our favorite. This is Julian's main street.

We walked the streets of Julian a little since it was very cold and they were waiting for snow to fall soon. We decided to leave before the snow since our car did not have chains for driving on snow.