THE CALIFORNIA WEEKEND

I've got to show you, Viewer Dear, a few more photos of the fantastic flora, bit of fauna,  and the many other lovely things we saw in Pasadena at the Huntington Botanical Gardens.

We actually saw only a tiny portion of the gardens, as we wanted to allow time to see the Huntington Library, which houses such impressive artifacts as:

Originals by John James Audubon,

 Seven-hundred-year-old manuscripts on vellum,

 and The original Gutenberg Bible!
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We also took time to visit the Huntington's (West Coast) dwelling place, located on this property (maintained beautifully, allowing folks like myself to marvel mightily over the furnishings*).

 *But, truth be told,
Reader Dear, I had done so much marveling over the current weather pattern there in Pasadena, that the hand-patterned, hand-knotted rugs (in spite of their 5,600,000 hand-tied knots) had to take a back seat!

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Oh, yes, Dear Reader.
More to come, as, after all, a weekend does include
late Saturday afternoon, and almost always Sunday!