I've been in southern California for the past six days and will fly back to Denver this morning. Here are a few photos I took.


^Maury, the morning I was packing for CA. 12-7-2020.


^12-7-2020. My row. I went from side to side to look out the windows.



^12-7-2020. So little snow on the Rockies! They got some while I was in CA so it should be whiter now.






^12-7-2020. The view coming into to Orange County. The black is from the Bond Fire. It was still smoldering but is out, now. My home would be to the left, out of the shot.



^12-8-2020. Green!


^12-8-2020. That's not good. I hadn't had the palms trimmed in 2020. Got them done on 12-12-2020.


^12-8-2020. My main reason for coming to CA was to go to my 5th wheel at Kennedy Meadows. Due to the SQF Fire, I hadn't been back since June. First stop, before the trailer was to see how the South Fork of the Kern was flowing. Nice. No snow here, either.


^12-8-2020. Ah! Finally here with a fire.



^12-8-2020. It didn't seem that cold but the water I had to pour on the fire was freezing.



^12-9-2020. I drove about 15 miles up to see if there was evidence of the fires there this summer. None. And barely and snow.







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^12-9-2020. Walking to the river.



^12-9-2020. Sunset walk from the trailer.


^12-10-2020. Time to drive back to Trabuco Canyon, CA. Four hours and a bit over 200 miles.



^12-10-2020. This is called Nine-Mile Canyon. That's a very clear day in the desert below.



^12-11-2020. Getting in a short ride (15 miles) back home.


^12-11-2020. Gotta suck up the flowers and colors. Back in Colorado there won't be anything but brown until April or May.


^I usually ride from this park and get on the Aliso Creek bike trail. No cars!


^12-11-2020. A sign of the times. I went to the doctor to have my aching foot checked out (tendonitis?) and when you go in you're asked the Covid questions and walk by a temperature scanner. Once the guy sees that you're not hot, you take one of these stickers to put on your clothes. When you are done and leave, they want you to remove the stickers. They were all over the ground, too and on a trash can.



^12-11-2020. I visited Ricky at Huntington Beach and took pizza.



^12-12-2020. I was lucky that my regular palm tree, Bertin, trimmer could come on Saturday.


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^12-12-2020. Last chance to suck up California weather. This was a beach I'd never been to before.


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^12-12-2020. Lights at Dana Point, CA.



^12-13-2020. Time to pack for the flight to CO.

 

Very nice, Patricia. I would not mind seeing green grass and flowers myself!

So what did the doc say about the foot?

 

Cannot see any of the photos...

 

I am on my phone and I can see the photos from December 9 and on but I can’t see the ones from December 7 and 8 and one from December 9.

Later I will get on the computer and see what I can see on the computer.

Edited to say...

Well...this is interesting...I am on my computer now, and I don't see any of the photos at all!

Deb, are you viewing this on a phone or a computer?

I just went back to my phone, and I can still see the ones that I saw before on my phone.

Patty, did you post the photos in the beginning of this message in a different way than the later photos?

I am confused, too, but I am not the most tech savvy person...

Maybe, one of the tech savvy people will have an explanation...

 

On my desktop. I see the captions but that is it.

 

That is what I see on my computer, too.

But, on my cell phone, I saw all of the photos starting with the second one from December 9, but none before that.

 

Same here. I suspect that the forum software cannot handle that many pics in one post.

 

That could be.

Why do you suppose, though, that I can see something like 20 of the photos on my cell phone, but none on the computer?

 

I added the pictures from my Google photo account as saved and pasted and not from saved external drive pictures. That may have something to do with it. I'm sitting on the plane getting ready to fly so I'll try to fix it in the next day or two when I get back to Colorado.





12-13-2020. Goodbye green!

 

He thinks it's tendonitis. He told me to ice it three times a day, gave me meloxicam and some gel that I'm supposed to put on it three times a day.