Nature Friday - A Beach Adventure

 

 Hi friends,  a couple of weeks ago, Arty and I went to the Carmel area for the weekend in CeCe. Today, as a special honor to Arty, I thought you might like to tag along on a sunset walkie to Arty's Ocean!

 

 

Our RV Park was within walking distance to the beach. We walked past lots of boats.

 

 

 Mama says this is a Marina. It is where people and fishermen keep their boats.

 

 

 

After we passed the boats, we crossed the street, we walked a bit further....

 

 

 

...and found this pretty trail we followed to 

Arty's ocean!

 

 

 The skies were so very pretty...

 

 

 

 

 Our RV park is very close to those tall smoke stacks in the background!

 

 

 

 We got to the ocean, and sat down to watch the ocean...and after a few minutes Arty, the great whale spotter, saw a WHALE!!!

 

 

Do you see it Rosy?!

 

Mama made a video of our fun beach walkie. 

 Warning to Lee and Phod's Mama: This movie contains whale sightings

 

 

Feel free to watch it HERE on YouTube

 

 

 

 We sure are going to miss Arty, he taught us

 to always make the most of every day! 

 

Do you have a favorite memory of Arty? 

Please tell us in the comments.

 

 

 Thanks to all  our friends for the comforting words during this difficult time. We will be back to regular blogging next week.

 

 

 

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE to go to our Hoppity Page.

 

 

Beach Flowers on Nature Friday

 

Happy Beach, I mean Nature, Friday!!

I thought we'd take a ride out to my ocean today, not only to see the beautiful Pacific Ocean, but also to take a look at the amazing beach flowers!

 

 

 The Yellow Sand Verbena is everywhere!!

 

 It's so cheerful, don't you think?

 

 

 It's like a whole bouquet of flowers in one!!

 

 

I sure do love the sound of the ocean, don't you?? Oh...that's right, you can't hear it, can you? MAMAMAMA, why don't you post that video....

You can also view it HERE 

on YouTube

 

 We found a few Beach Morning Glories peaking out of the sand too! Aren't they pretty with there yellow middles and purply-pink edges?!

 

 

 This Beach Strawberry is one of the two wild strawberry plants that were hybridized

to create today's strawberry! How cool is that?!

 

 

 Let's walk down the beach a bit and see what else we can find....

 

 

 Ooooo, there it is...Mama's and my FAVORITE beach flower.....

 

A form of beach sweet pea, this pretty plant blooms at the same time as the local Lupine flowers.  Mama and I like to call it mini-lupine

Thank for joining me on my beach flower walk today! 

We hope everyone has time to smell the flowers this weekend!!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

 

 

 

Aaaawwwwwrty and Jakey Monday

You  going to give  us those cookies,  Mama?? 

We're joining Comedy Plus for the

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Shark (Pick Up) Zone

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Comedy Plus for hosting the

Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop!

 

My Birthday Adventure!

 As promised today, on Nature Friday, I'm here to tell you about the Mama, Daddy and Birthday Boy Adventure I went on last Sunday!!




 Mama did not take me to the dogtur in Oregon, but instead took me to one of my favorite places for a good ocean walk;
Stone Lagoon!!

 We've shown you this beach before. It's the one where we walk up the beach towards this big boulder.

Although I guess we could have walked the other way too. Both sides of this beach are beautiful.





 
 I frequently paused to breathe in the ocean air and listen to the surf.
The ocean always makes me happy!!

 The little balls of sand verbena are popping up everywhere now that the sun and warmer weather has arrived!

 

The beach morning glory is also in full bloom!  Most of them have little red spider mites running around them that gave Mama the willies!

 

 During our walk back to the car we enjoyed searching the forest for elk. They like to come to Stone Lagoon...and some peeps have even seen them on the beach! Unfortunately, we didn't see any this trip.

 
 It was a beautiful day and we did enjoy the green forest  against the blue skies!

 

Sometimes, we take for granted how lucky we are to live so close to so much natural beauty...


After spending much of the late Winter and Spring couped up in the house,  we are vowing to get out and enjoy nature more often this summer!

 Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.