Capistrano Encore

Rach asked about a botanical gardens down in San Diego but we opted, largely due to travel/nap conflicts, to go for the more local next-best-thing, which is really pretty good after all.  So the gardens were the main photographic focus of this excursion, and not just for me!  You see Rachel buried in those bushes, don’t you?  The kids, meanwhile, were entertained by the audio tours again.

           
So many new things in bloom this time; orange blossoms and irises were just the beginning!

 
Here are those two goofy, gorgeous kids of mine, along with a quartet of the fabled swallow’s nests.

                     
The “curiosity cart” was set out with squirrel pelts, arrowheads, corn husk dolls and other touchable Juaneno artifacts and toys.  Nearby, the hollyhocks stood more than six feet high.

             
Since it was only a couple days after Easter, the message of this inscription (trans: I shall rise again) was particularly powerful.

                    
I didn’t catch this until just now as the photos came together somewhat coincidentally, but look how the colors of the fish echo the colors of the flowers.
 Best aunt ever?  Logan might think so.

                               
Glorious beauty everywhere you turn.

My favorites among the flowers.

                         
This is as good a place as any to cut it off; I’m going to go ahead and break this post up.  Partly so that’s it’s not as massively long as the last one, partly because I want to go to bed!  G’night all!