Showing posts with label Old Town Orange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old Town Orange. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Wild Parrots!

The Husband and I spent part of our last day of vacation at Olde Town Orange.  There's an actual traffic circle there and in the center is a placid (if you tune out the cars) little park with a fountain and huge palm and evergreen trees.  Sometimes, if you're lucky, like we were today, you can hear and see dozens of wild parrots.  They're pretty amazing.


I hope you'll get an idea of what we saw and heard.  After I'd put my camera away, at least 50 parrots did a fly by and soared away into the distance!






A few years ago, I was sitting in the parking lot at the Bowers Museum before a Bead Society meeting and I was surprised by these colorful, noisy birds in the nearby trees.  I've heard different stories about their origins but no one really knows how they got here...  Want to learn more about the wild parrots of Southern California?  Go to here, to Amazornia .

It's been a nice, quiet vacation.  Got a lot of little things done that are difficult to get to during the workday, plus The Husband has been working every weekend in October...  It was good to just spend time together and be away from the Day Jobs.

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Girls' Day Out


Today, I met my friend, Anneliese, in Old Town Orange, a quaint little area filled with antique shops and art galleries. Here’s the Plaza (more commonly known as The Circle, because it has an honest-to-God traffic circle):


I recently discovered Cherry on Top frozen yogurt, where you mix your own yogurty concoctions. Nom! So that’s where we met for a cool lunch on a very warm SoCal day:


We took our time poking through antique shops and new boutiques that have been popping up, where I snagged some really cool old jewelry to upcycle:


Then we went to a reception for our friend, Marilu Morency, at the Schroeder Gallery, where she was showcasing her beautiful beadwork:

Her little inspiration bags hold a positive word to brighten your day. She works in seed beads, which are teeny tiny and totally beyond my patience (and eyesight!):


Here’s the Bead Society Girls: Me, Marilu and Anneliese:


It was really good to get out with friends today. It’s been one of those weeks where nothing went right and other things just went wrong… It truly lifted my spirits to get out and see girlfriends and be carefree for a few hours!

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