Food: Fruit juices and shakes........

Nothing can beat summer heat like fresh-squeezed fruit juice........
I made different juices with the fruits in my pantry............
Coconut water..........

Water melon juice...........

Carrot cilantro juice..........

Banana almond shake........

Mango juice.....

Apple juice.........

Pineapple juice............

Place: Centennial Farm in Costa Mesa.......

OC fairground in Costa Mesa..
It is the Centennial Farm ....veggies, fruits and flowers were growing when we visited in summer...

Got to see butterflies, pigs, chickens, rabbits, cattle, horse, peafowls...

Season: Another rainyday musing...

Out Irvine apartment....It is another soggy day in South California..........

Sit by the window..and reminisce...

Rain-streakd window..

Camellia in my garden being lashed by the rain..

The pine needles with crystal-like drops studded to them...

Decor/Passion: Vases with my garden flowers...........(I)

Simple vases with flowers from my garden.......
California poppy.......

 Nasturtium........

Narcissus........what a heady fragrance it emits!

A stalk of Aeonium..

Two peltate leaves of nasturtium...

Mixed flowers.....

Place: Another summer day in La Jolla beach........

La Jolla beach, San Diego...
My spouse with a cousin's toddler son....the kid seems amused with the intrepid gull......

Sea lions are taking siesta under the rocks..a gull seems to harass them..

Rather placid Ocean...a paddleboarder in the distant..

A happy ground squirrel, who lives amidst the sea-figs draping the bluffs...it must have got one of the nicest views...

Observation: Tranquil lake-side house..

A lake-side house...on the shore of Lake Woodbridge, in our neighborhood..
With profuse mandevilla blooms, the porch looks stunning...

A red heart bauble hangs from one roof.....

The porch of another house...I love this one, with its abundant orchids, succulents, kumquat...

Hummingbird on the honeysuckles........

Honeysuckles and plumbago.......

Sycamores and gazebo.....

A mallard in the lake..........

And its the view from the porch...Santa Ana mountain borders the horizon...

Perfect setting for peaceful days anytime of the year...