THE LAKE IS BEING PREPPED FOR ITS' SUMMER CROWDS

Beautiful but breezy day and I hope to get out and enjoy the weather today, either here in town or Lake Arrowhead or on up to Big Bear.  But before I go...  just a few things I thought to post.  Recently I took photos in Claremont and when I came across these sherbert color houses I couldn't decide which one I will choose to live in one day (in my imagination because prices are exorbitant -  in the town of Claremont.  These little beauties are probably close to 800,000 to a million.  It's ridiculous but I would love to live in this college town.  So which one would you choose...I'm having a hard time but I think it would be the Spanish style one.  Just looking at these make me want to move - immediately.

(edit)  I just looked up median house costs in Claremont which is  631,000 but I think if it is close to the village it is more and these are near the village.  So my dream is still out of my reach - way out).

My favorite color on a car is this shade of yellow - especially on a jeep.  I noticed these two bumble bees the other day while walking near my favorite food place, Toni's.  I also noticed that the North  Shore Inn which is next to  Toni's has their flags out and are readying the place for the big holiday weekend coming up soon.

And the lake will soon be hosting Splash Island again - the first few pieces have been floated out which means soon - very soon are little town will be inundated with families who make lots of noise while having fun and of course, there is always the sirens - that will be heard almost on a constant basis as some people have yet to learn how to drive the mountain roads without texting while going around curves.  I hope they are all safe and no accidents this year.  A lot of people come up the mountain to enjoy the lake but one BIG problem which is talked about on all the mountain forums up here is how people leave their trash - whether it's summer or winter - which is even a bigger problem as people come up with plastic throwaway sleds and leave them all over the mountain.  I'm not a complainer about it all because I pretty much stay put on days people are around but the locals go on and on and on and on about it - always.

This picture below stands exactly as I photographed it - no editing at all - when I saw her in the lake and noticed the colors - it looked like a beautiful pastel painting that even Vincent Van Gogh might have painted with its' beautiful swirls of white on blue - looking like a Van Gogh sky.  We have a LOT of pollen falling lately from the cedar trees (and other types of trees) and it makes for messy cars windows, extremely runny noses but beautiful lake water.

This little flower is blooming all over right now and I don't know what it is.  The blooms are about the size of my thumb and they grow in a clump low to the ground.  I'm thinking a trip up to Heaps Peak Arboretum near Running Springs might be in order - as they have lots of indigenous plants all around with labels explaining what they are.

This is for my sis who loves umbrellas.  One of my favorite houses I pass by whenever I walk over at the lake has their red umbrellas out.   They always put them out in May.