bustin' loose

[OT from cottage renovations]

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Carpinteria

these stalks are showing different stages of the transformation from bud into bloom. 

      

   
Agapanthus

it's a transplant from South Africa but seems to have settled in all over the place out here. 

last day

[OT from cottage renovations]

at the end of the last day out here we dined in a place whose location offers a convergence of sea, sunset and the  Union  Southern Pacific Coast Line. 

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Padaro Lane

setting
( ... a few minutes before, it was even better ... )

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tomorrow: return to Maryland and arrival of the Alaskan contingent. 
stay tuned.