Kevin, Brett and I enjoyed our labor day weekend this year camping with sweet friends- Palu, his Papi, and their puppy Dasher. With many of the popular campsites being full, we still managed to find a peaceful place where no one else was camped. I can't disclose the name of this place because that would ruin any chances of it remaining peaceful in the future... :) We hiked and played music together mostly. Brought my fiddle, and a basket full of instruments for Kevin and Palu. Here we are waiting for breakfast on day two:
Here is a view looking north up part of the Pacific Crest Trail:
We narrowly avoided the Poison Oak that surrounded our camp, and were well armed with karate moves. This PO has already turned red for us, but was not too virulent or oily, yet:
Kevin dressed like a dragon. Palu taught us a lot of cool moves.
Of course, there were many interesting rock faces all around us. We thought this one was talking to us and that it looked like either a chicken or melting ice cream:
After watching some of the beautiful seed pods blow around in the early Santa Ana winds, we were drawn to this bush and took note of the spirally seeds that are perfect for flight travel. There were also cottonwood trees in the area, providing cotton seeds on the ground.
That sort of sums up our recent craziness and fun. Oh, can't forget to mention that I brought one of my drop spindles and finished two skeins of three ply yarn that I had started working on the week before. It was time consuming, and perfect for me to relax and enjoy the weekend outside. I do like the weight of the yarn:
And you can see here that we also got a tattoo of the whole Peanuts gang.
