One day recently I was down in Redlands, about 30 minutes from where we live - and took several photos of houses I liked.
Yesterday got to spend a lot of time with two of my grandkids from Bend, Oregon, Mackenzie and Jake. It was a great day but very hot. Their grandparents where they are staying live fairly close to where we use to live before we moved up to cooler areas. I'm not sure I would ever want to deal with heat in the high 90's and over 100 again. Hot weather has settled in and from all reports I've read is here to stay for quite a while. I was so glad to get home to cooler weather but woke up to it being really warm today.
I love this top photo - It sits on a beautiful street in the historical district - a favorite place of mine to walk. The City of REdlands is known for growing citrus and there are still many groves around private residences and of course the farming of citrus crops is still a big industry in this area.
When we first moved to Southern California in 1960 from Kansas, the new house my parents bought was in a modest new tract home community which had previously been an orange grove. Every house still had several orange trees on the property (and not much of anything else other than dirt). I can still remember waking up every day to the smell of orange blossoms when they were blooming in spring.
Are you staying cool?
Yesterday got to spend a lot of time with two of my grandkids from Bend, Oregon, Mackenzie and Jake. It was a great day but very hot. Their grandparents where they are staying live fairly close to where we use to live before we moved up to cooler areas. I'm not sure I would ever want to deal with heat in the high 90's and over 100 again. Hot weather has settled in and from all reports I've read is here to stay for quite a while. I was so glad to get home to cooler weather but woke up to it being really warm today.
I love this top photo - It sits on a beautiful street in the historical district - a favorite place of mine to walk. The City of REdlands is known for growing citrus and there are still many groves around private residences and of course the farming of citrus crops is still a big industry in this area.
When we first moved to Southern California in 1960 from Kansas, the new house my parents bought was in a modest new tract home community which had previously been an orange grove. Every house still had several orange trees on the property (and not much of anything else other than dirt). I can still remember waking up every day to the smell of orange blossoms when they were blooming in spring.
Are you staying cool?
9 comments:
Wow, there are some very big houses there! All these were in REdlands I take it.
yes they were. More and more people seem to be renovating their older homes and so many are looking great.
I could really fancy that first one. It's a beauty.
Some great houses.
Some great porches too ... lovely to sit a while!
All the best Jan
By the way, that banner photo is great!
Oh WOW! Truly beautiful! I love your banner as well! We have been getting so much rain, that outside smells wet! It is yucky! And, the heat and humidity are high too! We need to dry out for a bit! I hope soon! Big Hugs!
thanks everyone - hope u are all having a great summer.
Beautiful photos of these lovely homes, Sandy. Wow, some of them are really big! It's been hot here too, but we are getting by. Summer sure came early!
So pretty!
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