May 9, 2015, Saturday, the day we got home from snowbirding.

Scenery along western Idaho between below Moscow, Idaho.

Scenery along Hwy. 95 in western Idaho, below Moscow, Idaho.

The river along the highway.  I knew what it was but now I can't remember.

River along Hwy. 95 below Moscow, Idaho

Same thing but slightly different!

A field of Mustard in western Idaho

Looking back down on Lewiston, Idaho.  Or was it Moscow, Idaho?

This was in one of the logging towns in northern Idaho.  Anyone know what that big wooden or stone cone-type thing is?

East of Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, almost to the Montana state line.

Home!  This is actually the next morning.  We got home around midnight.

This is my lilac bush.  It's been planted for 9 years and has flower buds on it

for the first time!

 

This is the first time I have completed my snowbirding blog all the way through

until we got back home!  It was a great 5 1/2 months!  :)

 

May 8, 2015, Friday

All three of these pictures are from the area around where Nevada, Oregon,

and Idaho come together, along Hwy. 95.

We drove from Winnemucca, Nevada to just north of Boise, Idaho,

where we spent the night at a friend's house.

It's an open, remote, and beautiful area.

May 7, 2015, Thursday

Scott asleep in the car, surrounded by a junkyard of his toys and stuff!

Me, awake (thankfully! lol) at the wheel, taking a selfie.

Steven, taking a picture of me.  Which is still on his camera and I haven't seen it!

This picture was just to show the thick dark forest along the interstate east of

Sacramento, California.  Taken while I was driving.

Snow on the mountains as we began the climb up Donner pass from the west.

More snow.  Something of a novelty after a winter in southern Nevada without snow.

Nothing exciting, just the road in front of me as we wound up the pass.

Donner pass, below the summer.

I'm pretty sure this picture is supposed to be farther down.  It's Donner Lake, over the

east side of Donner Pass.

It was cold and snowing at the top of Donner Pass.

Just a few days ago we were in Death Valley and it was 103 degrees!

That haze is big snowflakes falling on a pond right before the summit

on Donner Pass.

The summit.

Going down the east side of Donner Pass.

The scenery is a lot better in person.  Pictures don't give it justice.

Snow on the downhill side.

This is way down the east side of the pass, east of Truckee, California.

Reno, Nevada, from I-80.

Sunset in northern Nevada

We stopped for the night at Winnemucca.

The mountains reflecting light from the sunset.

 

 

May 6, 2015, Part 4, Coastal highway, San Simeon to Monterrey

These pictures are from Highway 1, the coastal highway, between San Simeon and

Monterrey.  That long stretch of highway is beautiful, narrow, and winding as it follows along the top of the cliffs, with mountains going up right alongside.

It's one of the most beautiful drives I ever took.

 

 

 



May 6, 2015, Wednesday, Part 3, Cambria and San Simeon, CA

Self-explanatory!

 

Some sort of ground squirrel on the board walk.

Looking at the ocean over the boardwalk.

 

This is near Moonstone Beach

Moonstone beach.

Looking north at Moonstone beach.

Moonstone beach

Nitt Witt Ridge.  There were taken on a different camera from the

post below this one with pictures from the tour.

Another view of Nitt Witt Ridge

Nitt Witt Ridge from off to the left side.

Me on the phone with Rusty in front of Nitt Witt Ridge.

Scott standing by me.

The Silver Surf Motel in San Simeon.

I spent the summer near here in 1977 and worked here.

They've built on to it now, with another wing and a swimming pool.

The steps down to the beach at San Simeon.

Lovely rock-hounding potential here.

Beautiful!

My feet.  Dunno why.  Just because?

Stones on the beach.

See anything good?

Jade?  Moonstones?  Other?

I ended up with pockets so full of stones that it was hard to keep my pants up!

 

Me sorting through stones.

 

Scott in his new hat.

Me again.

Scott:  "I hereby claim this land in the name of the Scottster!"

Me!  Woo-hoo!  I love it here on the beaches!  :)

Scott had his own "wooo-hooo" moment.

 

A bird that flew over where San Simeon creek runs into the ocean.

There were a few of them making laps.

Scott checking out something interesting.

Rocks at the north end of San Simeon beach

In the old days we would find starfish clinging to the other side of the rocks

when the tide went out.  The tide was coming in while we were here today.

North end of San Simeon beach.

San Simeon Beach

San Simeon Beach

San Simeon Beach

San Simeon Beach

San Simeon Beach

San Simeon Beach

San Simeon Beach

Yes, that was a lot of pictures almost alike, but the waves were different in each.

I love to scroll through and look at all of these pictures.

If you don't, then scroll faster next time so you don't have to!  Ha ha!

The Hearst castle from the highway.

The Hearst Castle, from the highway.

The Hearst Castle, from the highway.

Elephant seals on the beach north of San Simeon.

Elephant Seals on the beach north of San Simeon.

A seagull on a post, north of San Simeon.

 

....and a minute later a crow took it's place!

 

Elephant Seals on the beach

A couple of seals in the water

Same thing, a minute later.