Flower Fields

 On Wed my dear sister came and picked me up and drove us to the Flower Fields in Carlsbad! The hills and fields on the drive down there were covered in tall waving grass and bright gold poppies and yellow mustard and many other wild flowers. The parking lot was full of geraniums and flowers arrangements so beautiful we had fun just walking to the entrance. We came in to a rainbow of flower displays with a riot of colors so bright and spectacular that the sun shone seemed to glow from within each flower! It dazzled your eyes! We wondered thru the many colorful displays and took pictures of the different ways they set up the plantings and got many great ideas for how to maybe copy them in our yards! They had a special greenhouse filled with many types of poinsettia's, next we got lost for a short time in a sweet pea maze, then off the the antique tractor pull ride out to the many fields full of beautiful flowers. A recording explained the history of the fields and how the planting , weeding and recovery of the tubers was done during the different seasons. There was a steep hill to go down and the tractor driver had a hard time with the gears, so we had a few nervous smiles as we made our way to the end of the ride. We had fun shopping and picking out many items and flowers we would love to buy, then putting them all back and then had a good laugh at how we saved money and a ton of work by not buying more garden plants! We both have more than enough yard and garden work to keep us busy for weeks on end without buying more stuff to have to tend to! Susan did a great job finding our way to a great place to sit and eat a wonderful lunch of grilled shrimp tacos, beans and chips and salsa, fresh squeezed lime topped of a nice lunch we both needed. The world was looking 10 times better now that we had lunch and we enjoyed a nice drive thru the fields back to my house. Bob came home and was delighted to get a  chicken statue and not a live chicken from Susan. We visited the horses and drank a blended ice coffee and Susan left for home. I went out and cleaned and fed horses, we had a nice dinner of left overs and watched Survivior.