A flickering light may mean spirits are present...
November 1, 2024
October 14, 2024
Florida Farms in the Fall
Saturday, October 12, 2024, at Amazing Grace Family Farms in Green Cove Springs, Florida
October 1, 2024
August 27, 2024
August 9, 2024
Luna Memorial Anniversary
August 5th, a yearly tradition: V Pizza and Fallen Angel cocktails
August 4th, walking around Avondale after brunch. Purple = Luna
March 7, 2024
St. Augustine Sunflower
February 24, 2024
Spotted this artistic automotive statement on our way to the rooftop of River & Fort to celebrate a friend's birthday on a cool Saturday night in St. Augustine, Florida.
February 17, 2024
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park in Palm Coast, Florida
February 10, 2024
Note that a selection of photos were taken by my significant other. This was his first time visiting the lush state park and my second time since 2015. We are planning to return in the late spring or summer to see the 3,000 sq ft rose garden in bloom. The clean air and scenery are well worth the hour-long drive from Jacksonville—two hours if you take the coastal scenic route along A1A.
December 1, 2023
July 25, 2023
Balboa Park in San Diego, California
Spanish Baroque architecture featured throughout Balboa Park. My parents brought me here as a child and although I have no recollection of visiting, I found the park absolutely gorgeous.
Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden, featuring more than 130 varieties of roses
July 24, 2023
San Diego, California
Backseat views during the drive from Pasadena to San Diego
El Cajon, Spanish for "The Box," is a suburb of San Diego where my parents lived while my father was stationed at the naval base in San Diego. This Downtown El Cajon sign was constructed several years later in 2009.
At a naval memorial rose garden on the hospital grounds near my birthplace. The original hospital closed decades prior. This summer marks the first time I returned to San Diego since we moved to the East Coast when I was a toddler.
Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá. Note: The Mission system is not without a dark past, enslaving tribes of Native Americans who burned the first mission to the ground during an uprising in 1775—one year after it was relocated closer to the San Diego River. The Mission has since been rebuilt a total of five times due to various natural disasters. My interest is mostly in its gorgeous architecture and gardens.
Ordering dinner at a trendy joint called The Rose Wine Bar. I will never not try a drink named after the artist formerly known as Prince. The deep purple gin cocktail was floral to its core and adorned with miniature dried roses.
Stopped into Vinyl Junkies to browse their expansive collection of new and vintage records.
All aboard Mothership, San Diego's space-themed tiki bar. Highly recommend it for the otherwordly cocktails, atmosphere, and service. Note that the first photo is taken by my long-time friend and partner's brother, who co-hosted us with his wife during their own extended trip to Southern California.
El Campo Santo Cemetery in Old Town San Diego, which represents just a small part of the original grounds
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