Tag archives for California
Windansea Sunset
San Diego was hit by an unusual heat wave this summer. One evening Bill and I escaped to the beach for a Windansea sunset. A week or two before we'd attended a memorial service at Windansea for Matt, a family friend. We had gathered on the rocky bluffs of Windansea beach. Matt's friends, family and pastor all shared memories and tears. Then…
La Jolla is for Lovers. . . and Seals
La Jolla is home to many wonderful things - the University of California at San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the late Dr. Suess, the venerable La Valencia Hotel, La Jolla Cove, gorgeous views and scenery. But my favorites are relative newcomers -- the colony of Pacific harbor seals. La Jolla began to be settled by modern settlers in the late…
San Diego, California
by Donna Amis Davis / @DonnaAmisDavis Big Waves at La Jolla, the January Swell Come along today, and we'll venture across the Pacific Ocean from Palawan, Philippines to visit my hometown. I was born and raised in San Diego, California. Well, I was actually born in La Jolla, the gorgeous upscale village on a jewel of coastline. That's what my…
Party Pasta Salad
by Donna Amis Davis ⁄ @DonnaAmisDavis My grandson celebrated his 4th birthday today! His creative parents went all-out with an Angry Birds theme party at Mission Bay, in San Diego. My assignment was to assemble the pasta salad. My daughter wanted something antipasto-like to accompany the Costco pizza. She provided me with all the ingredients. It was up to me to…
La Jolla Coast Walk – Could Anything Be Prettier?
La Jolla Shores View from Coast Walk If you visit San Diego, don't miss the views from the La Jolla Coast Walk! You'll see surfers, ocean kayakers, sea lions, pelicans, bluffs, and the wide Pacific. A quintessentially Southern California experience. I'll admit, I took these pictures in April, on a beautiful spring day, nasturtiums and daisies blooming. If you visit…
San Diego Kids Free October – San Diego Loves Kids – 100 Free Attractions in October!
Feeding the Ducks at San Diego Zoo Safari Park Kids are free in October all over San Diego! 100 partners have joined this year for San Diego Kids Free October. The San Diego Zoo has offered kids-free Octobers for more than 25 years. Local tourism officials expanded the program last year to get families to extend the summer traveling season…