Taking Time to Develop My Passion in San Diego
If you’ve read my blog before, you know I am a big believer in self-care and personal development. As you can see from my note above, I traveled to San Diego, California this week to do a little of both: attending a one-day conference and visiting with family. I won’t be writing a typical blog post this week, but wanted to share some photos with you for fun.
If you’ve never been to San Diego, you must! It’s a beautiful area. I’m going to share a few photos below of the first 36 hours of my visit.
I should have known something was going on when my luggage was held up in security. They spend a good two minutes eye-balling my bag under the x-ray machine.
I’m guessing this stash below was the reason why. My husband snuck in these tasty goodies to surprise me on my trip. Yep, he’s a keeper!
The weather in San Diego is typically clear skies and sunny with an average temperature of 70 degrees. Not too shabby! It has been a little overcast and in the mid-60’s on my visit thus far. Great walking weather!
I’m staying in the La Jolla area and there are lots of surfers, and as you can see from the photo below, scuba divers too, that frequent this beach.
Beach art!
I could watch sandpipers all day. They walk super fast and stick their long beaks in the sand to pull out insects and other small organisms to eat. Check out his reflection.
This seagull had a cool personality. He was strutting around like he owned the place.
Surf rescue gulls!
These beautiful trees, at a park along the beach, are works of art!
These flowers along the beach path that smell like heaven! Not sure of the name but I had my nose buried in these every chance I got.
Leaving the beach area now and strolling through some neighborhoods close by…
I have some horticulture, landscape design friends who laugh at me because instead of identifying plants/trees by their real names, I just name them for how they look. I have named this tree a “painted bottlebrush”. Please chime in down in the comment section if you know the true name.
Bird of Paradise!
Amazing succulent garden in someone’s front yard.
These beautiful gated entryways to homes are typical in this area.
I feel sorry for these people. Just look at what they have to look at every day!
Rusty pelican guarding this home’s front entrance.
After enjoying a long walk, I headed off to my conference.
This was my view at the conference. That’s Chris Ducker and Pat Flynn up front. The day was AWESOME! I met so many smart, kind and generous people with hearts for making a difference online. I’ll tell you more about it in the future.
I’m here for a few more days to spend time with some of my West Coast family. Look forward to meeting you back here next Saturday!
Jill xx
I loved seeing the pictures and I think you aptly named the “Painted Bottlebrush Tree”! Can’t wait to hear about the seminar – what a cool building/room it was held in!
It was great! Can’t wait to tell you all about it Traci!
Looks like an exciting adventure with wonderful things to look and photograph! Be safe and enjoy yourself..
Mardy
Yes, a very beautiful area Mardy! You would be in heaven with your photographer’s eye! Hope you are well.
Beautiful photos, Jill. It looks like you had a great time. San Diego really is a beautiful city. That tree you named ‘Painted Bottlebrush’ is close. My Mom had one in our back yard in Long Beach and called it Bottlebrush.
Hi, Mary Ann! Well, I guess my naming skills are on point! Thanks for sharing that. Have thought a lot about John since down here. Hope you are doing well. xo