PSP 3

So, in a few hours we will have been here a week, and we'll have two more days to go. A most excellent trip, if I do say so. After the flurry of activity those first weekend days, Monday and Tuesday were filled mostly with hanging out at the pool, swimming (if you're Coco), walking, reading, and relaxing: totally pleasurable and rejuvenating activities, but perhaps not very generative of photo ops.

Yesterday was to be the coolest and cloudiest day of the trip, so we took the opportunity to jump in the car and make the Palms to Pines drive up the back of Mt. San Jacinto (if you consider the side that the Palms Springs Tramway goes up the front). It is, of course, a curvy road full of switchbacks, and just like it says on the tin, the foliage changes from desert palms to scruffy pines and all of a sudden you're the Pacific Northwest again. Well, not really, but the little town of Idyllwild was really reminiscent of Winthrop, out on the Cascade Loop.

Viewpoint about halfway up.

Snow!

All the critters of California

That was yesterday. Today, I was up before the sun as usual, and I just thought our hotel looked so pretty in the crepuscular light.