natsukashiiiiiii

thank goodness we didn't lose all of our photos during our move back to CA.  our laptops and backups were stolen from the mail, with the exception of one little 320gb hard drive had *most of our photos... well up until last winter anyway.  here are a few random shots that took me back . . .
I need to move on, I know.

curving roads and rolling hills . . .

along the central coast

San Luis Obispo mission de Tolosa and sunny weather. I love the central coast. . .

harvest season on film

for our 4 yr wedding anniversary (!) we had a beautiful time on the central coast wine tasting and wandering around vineyards. if you've never been wine tasting and are thinking of going, the central coast is a really pretty, relaxed area to try it out :D

last month of summer

for weeks after we got back CA, the weather was summer~like and made me sooo happy. I even went in the water without a wetsuit one day! it was freezing, but at least the sun was warm once I got out. Even though those hot days are gone, fall is certainly nothing to complain about . . .

a few things:

  //  I missed  //  

1 warm, golden sun that only exists in CA.  2 in n out.  3 our kitty.  

4 frozen yogurt.  5 (not japanese) pears.  6 driving through the canyon.

 

 

 

our home.

cleaning, packing, saying goodbyes... only 2 weeks left of this life.

aloha summer !

goodbye to spring plums hanging in the trees, rain (I hope,) and a lot of belongings (time for some major trips to the give-away!!)

hello humidity like nowhere else!, the beach (although it didn't happen last weekend,) sunscreen, mosquitos, and farewell parties

end of spring 花

pretty in purple =

お母さん

visitor

since the first couple of days my mom was here it rained (at least the typhoon passed us by~,) we decided a good dry activity we could try was to see the city aquarium (finally, after almost 3 years living ten minutes from it!!)  Their most impressive creature was definitely their whale shark.  and I liked all of the tanks that had local Kagoshima sea life too.

the rest of the shots here are from a very perfect sunny & warm day when we went up to kirishima.  we strolled around the shrine and hiked to a waterfall.  My mom leaves on monday, so I'm happy that we have one more weekend together (! !manju is moving to CA with her monday too!)  We'll see them both in a couple of months though! 

in the sand and on cement

goofing off, killing time, surfing, or all dressed up for a holiday at the temple ~ these are balinese kids !