{"id":3315,"date":"2010-03-01T15:21:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2010-03-01T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:21:36","slug":"weekend-in-palm-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2010\/03\/01\/weekend-in-palm-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend in Palm Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lily doesn’t like dogs.<\/p>\n

They’re dirty, she says – they smell and they’re dangerous. After this weekend, Aviva’s mom changed her mind a little bit.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Here’s a little video of Iggy bouncing on my knee in the hotel room:<\/p>\n

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A couple of audio files of doves cooing from the Moorten Botanical Garden in Palm Springs:<\/p>\n

[xspf]_start(‘Doves’, ‘mode=3&width=300&height=120’);[\/xspf]<\/p>\n

And a gallery of photographs taken in Palm Desert:<\/p>\n

\"Windmills\" <\/a>
Lots of windmills in a windy area on the route between Palm Desert and Los Angeles <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Iggy <\/a>
Iggy sitting watching me – he sometimes hams it up for the camera! <\/div> <\/div>
\"Aviva <\/a>
Iggy likes to sit on Aviva’s lap, which is great because our last schip didn’t <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Knot <\/a>
An art shot I took at a rest stop <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Aviva <\/a>
Lil doesn’t like dogs but she seems to be making an exception for Iggy <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Thats <\/a>
Thats Snow Way Up There <\/div> <\/div>
\"Its <\/a>
Its my couch, and – hey, that’s shiny over there <\/div> <\/div>
\"Love <\/a>
We all know love is blonde right? <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cactus\" <\/a>
A cool cactus with pink spines <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Burned <\/a>
Took this on the road driving from Palm Desert <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"A <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Iggy <\/a>
Iggy taking a nap after a long day walking on El Paseo in Palm Desert <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cool <\/a>
Very pretty painted utility boxes on El Paseo Drive <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Shopping <\/a>
Shopping Center Lights <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"A <\/a>
This cactus grows odd anthropomorphic looking bits <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Iggy <\/a>
Iggy smelled and growled at this statue of a German shepard <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Aviva <\/a>
Aviva walking past a window at a construction site on El Paseo <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Iggy <\/a>
Iggy really REALLY wants to get to those doves! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"View <\/a>
Our room backed onto the pool <\/div> <\/div>
\"If <\/a>
Speaks for itself I think <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cactus <\/a>
Cactus flowers <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Close <\/a>
A better view of that neat African flower <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"A <\/a>
The mountains from Lil’s place <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cool <\/a>
Don’t know what kind (sign said from Madagascar) but they look cool <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cal <\/a>
The Washington women’s team stayed at our hotel, we saw the Cal St team on the road at a rest stop <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cactus <\/a>
Cactus flowers <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Iggy <\/a>
Iggy really wants to get at those doves <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

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