Theme 62 - Exotic

These beautiful exotic parrots live on average of 75 years. I almost put this under the theme of commitment.

Theme 353 - Waiting

While my youngest was waiting for her sisters, she asked me to take a picture of her. Boy she loves having her photo taken. Her 2 other sisters were on the 2 story slide located in the house behind her.

Theme 291 - Emergency

You won't put out too many fires with this fire truck if there was an emergency, but it sure was fun to play on.

Theme 100 - Carved

This carved rock looks very sad to me.

Theme 190 - Farm Yard

My girls were just fine touching this goat as long as it stayed in one place.

Theme 12 - Performance

We watched a puppet show this past week about a Princess who kisses a frog and the frog then turns into a prince. The kids loved this performance.

Theme 348 - Distorted

I loved these kind of mirrors as a child, and my kids just loved them too. They always made you look so... distorted and funny.

Theme 330 - Cobbles

So where does this cobble stone path lead too?

Theme 70 - Spider Web

Well isn't that a cute spider stuck in this spider web?

Theme 170 - Shoe

Is it a shoe? Is it a house? No, it is a slide that the kids had fun playing on. It's from "There once was an old lady who lived in a shoe..."

Theme 72 - Dandelion

Dandelions, my kids just love them. They love to blow all those seeds off the stem, what great fun being a kid! We see at least 3-4 a day now.

Theme 61 - View

What a great view from "Lombard Street". Built in 1934, Coit Tower, which is built on top of Telegraph Hill, is 210 feet high.

Theme 108- House

Being the most photographed set/group of houses, here is what they call "The Painted Ladies". All victorians with bright beautiful colors.

Theme 113 - Iconic

Cable Cars, those clanging symbols of San Francisco, are the way to see the city. But it only covers a ten-mile section of downtown. The cable car was invented in 1873 by Andrew Hallidie and works via an underground cable which travels continuously at a speed of nine-and-a-half miles per hour.

Theme 364 - Zig Zag

Here is "The Crookedest Street In The World", Lombard Street.

Theme 246 - Swing

Here is Grandpa, visiting from Minnesota, pushing his youngest Granddaughter on the swing.

Theme 315 - Knowledge

This was such a cute school house with such a beautiful tree in bloom. What a great place for someone to learn and gain some great knowledge in their lives to come.

Theme 256 - Timetable

This tree is over 2000 years old. If you look close enough they have put little plaques along the tree rings to show when things happened during the life of this tree. In the middle, where the tree started, it says "When Jesus was born" etc..

Theme 192 - Sunset

After a wonderful day at the redwoods and the tide pools, we ended our day watching this beautiful sunset in Santa Cruz.

Theme 153 - Footprint

Here is our footprint at the beach in Santa Cruz.

Theme 335 - Unusual

At the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park I found this "Unusual" shade lover, which is a bright yellow "Banana Slug". They are found in cool, wet places and it eats fungus and decaying matter.

Theme 358 - Bent

I went to this fruit orchard and found this "Bent" tree trunk. I loved all the flowers on all those trees.