Weekend in Palm Desert
Lily doesn’t like dogs.
They’re dirty, she says – they smell and they’re dangerous. After this weekend, Aviva’s mom changed her mind a little bit.
She agreed we could bring our new puppy Iggy to her house as long as we brought his “cage,” a metal and plastic fence that can be shaped in many ways. So we packed everyone up in the car and drove out to Palm Desert. We spent Saturday walking on El Paseo and buying some cactus from the Moorten Botanical Garden.
Here’s a little video of Iggy bouncing on my knee in the hotel room:
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A couple of audio files of doves cooing from the Moorten Botanical Garden in Palm Springs:
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And a gallery of photographs taken in Palm Desert:
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- Cactus flowers
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- Don’t know what kind (sign said from Madagascar) but they look cool
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- A better view of that neat African flower
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- Iggy sitting watching me – he sometimes hams it up for the camera!
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- Very pretty painted utility boxes on El Paseo Drive
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- Iggy taking a nap after a long day walking on El Paseo in Palm Desert
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- Lil doesn’t like dogs but she seems to be making an exception for Iggy
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- Iggy smelled and growled at this statue of a German shepard
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- Iggy really wants to get at those doves
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- The Washington women’s team stayed at our hotel, we saw the Cal St team on the road at a rest stop
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- An art shot I took at a rest stop
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- Thats Snow Way Up There
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- Cactus flowers
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- Shopping Center Lights
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- Iggy likes to sit on Aviva’s lap, which is great because our last schip didn’t
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- Lots of windmills in a windy area on the route between Palm Desert and Los Angeles
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- Took this on the road driving from Palm Desert
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- The mountains from Lil’s place
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- Speaks for itself I think
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- A cool cactus with pink spines
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- Its my couch, and – hey, that’s shiny over there
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- Our room backed onto the pool
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- We all know love is blonde right?
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- Aviva walking past a window at a construction site on El Paseo
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- This cactus grows odd anthropomorphic looking bits
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- Iggy really REALLY wants to get to those doves!
March 1st, 2010 by alephnaught