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beach, california, carpinteria, day trip, ice cream, Mother's Day, picnic, poppies, poppy, sandpipers, sticks, wildflowers
I got to share a chunk of Mother’s Day with my sweet boy in Carpinteria which is this sleepy little beach town between Ventura and Santa Barbara- not a carpet store. Or carpenter store… We walked along a short but gorgeous boardwalk and ate lunch at an oceanfront picnic table. This was our view. And hummus:
It was a bit cloudy and the beach was covered in charred sticks for some reason. Rocco made what he called a “stick house” which was basically a collection of sticks stuck up in the sand. My apologies to anyone who stepped on it.
Here is a picture of swirly driftwood:
The weather and the driftwood really reminded me of trips to the Oregon coast.
We stopped at a cool park a block away with dolphin and seal statues for kids to play on.
Then we went for ice cream down the street. On the way back to the car, we stopped to take pictures of a poppy patch in a vacant lot that happened to be there. Sigh.
I made that picture above square-shaped, thinking I might go back on Instagram some day… The wildflowers along the highways here have been gorgeous but it’s hard to appreciate them while operating a moving vehicle. Believe it or not but for all the daily traffic jams (yes that’s plural) I sit in, they never seem to be next to wildflower patches. Although, due to a wreck on the 405 recently, Waze rerouted me down PCH so I got a traffic jam with an ocean view at least:
It’s still probably wasn’t safe enough to take this picture…
Anyways, back to my intentional beach trip. I decided to take the “Seacliff” exit off the 101 coming back and happened upon a gorgeous stretch of highway. There were lots of RVs parked on the side of the road with lots of other people enjoying the glorious beach day- but not so many people since I was able to easily pull over and observe this flock of sandpipers:
I showed them to Rocco and then we got back in the car and he promptly fell sleep.
“Flock of Sandpipers” is my new band, btw.
sincerelyimitated 