Blue Monday and Mosaic Monday

A pleasant Sunday drive turned into a chance to do both 

a Blue Monday

and a

Mosaic Monday post.

It has been hot around here lately. 

Over 100 on Saturday. Cooler on Sunday, but still hot.

I took these pictures as we took a drive in our area.

The external temp gauge kept us updated

on the outside temp.

 When we started it was warm. 93 degrees!

 Going clockwise the temp got lower as we got closer to the coast.

Very pleasant at the coast.

We ended driving a section of Hwy 1 that neither of us

remembers driving on. Not for a long time anyway.

We decided to pull over here to enjoy the view and the smell of the ocean

and feel the breeze. It was actually about 64 degrees by the time we stopped here.

After I took the above picture, I noticed a person climbing on that rock

in the lower right corner. Can you see her?

 Going clockwise you then see her at the top,

then over the the right, then climbing back down.

When she got to that water line on the rock, she then jumped in 

and swam to shore. We noticed she had a rope tied to her waist.

Someone on the shore had the other end. A protection against 

getting swept out I guess. She made back to the shore okay.

 Then I shifted my view to the right and we noticed seals

on the rocks there.

They are at the bottom of the large rock on the left and on 

the one smack in the middle of the picture.

 Here is a picture of my hubby. He was wearing BLUE. 

He wears a lot of BLUE anyway. :)

 Continuing on our way, we got to Bodega Bay.

The Candy and Kite shop. Lots of BLUE there.

 BLUE kite!

We stopped for dinner at a seafood restaurant.

And surprise the food was served on BLUE plates.

Plus the placemats and napkins were BLUE!

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We came back home to a hot house. BLECH!

But since the outside was down to 83 and it was over 90 in the house,

we opened the windows and turned on the fans. 

It did not take long for it to cool down after that.

Happy Monday to everyone!

~Linnea~

Hooking up with 

Smiling Sally for Blue Monday

and 

Little Red House for Mosaic Monday

Blue and Red and White for Blue Monday

I decided it was about time I posted again on here. 

Just in time for Blue Monday anyway since I got some 

Red, White and Blue photos to share.

Thank you to Sally over at Smiling Sally for 

being such a gracious host for so long.

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On July 3rd we went downtown to the plaza thinking 

there was going to be the usual Farmer's Market.

But surprise it was not being held this time.

Due to the holiday I guess.

Even without the Farmer's Market,

it was still amazingly busy in the plaza area.

Too hot to stay in I guess.

 I mean that is why we went there 

in the first place.

 Gotta assume all those other people had the same thought.

 This is the town hall in the middle of the plaza.

It is a historic building now.

The farmer's market is usually all around this building.

So we decided instead to take a walk around the plaza.

We have been increasing how much we walk and the plaza 

is a great place to do that.

 The plaza is surrounded on all four sides by streets in a square pattern and 

these buildings that I got pictures of are along those streets.
This one is of the Swiss Hotel.

 This one is Mary's Pizza. We have never eaten here yet.

Not this one anyway. But we have eaten at other locations.

 See how many people were enjoying the plaza. 

There are two play areas there

and many people were relaxing and dining with friends and family.

 This is the Toscano Hotel and too the right you can see the 

barracks of the Sonoma Mission. Another historic place.

Many of the buildings around the plaza are historic as well.

 We continue on around the plaza and come to the 

Ledson Hotel. A restaurant is on the first floor.

 And now we are back around to the front side of the

town hall again. We actually walked around this block twice.

Got our exercise in that night.

 People were setting up their chairs that night to save their 

places for the parade the next day.

I had no idea people did that. 

We did not go back to watch the parade. 

Too many people and we don't like to be in big crowds.

Lots of BLUE in those pictures!

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Today we took a Sunday drive!

We should do that more often and drive on roads we have never 

driven on before.

 This was one our views along the drive.

Beautiful blue sky today.

Hardly anybody passed us on this portion of our drive.

So nice and relaxing.

 A close up of that windmill!

 Today was another hot day!

Time to make smoothies

Non-fat plain yogurt,

BLUEBERRIES,

peaches,

mangoes,

And blend.

Except for the bananas, 

all the fruit was frozen.

Made for nice cold smoothies!

The end product.

I thought they would turn out more 

BLUE

since there were no strawberries in them this time.

But, they were just as yummy!

Stay Cool!

~Linnea~