T Stands for Flowers Were Blooming

 Hi everyone. 

Time is flying by and it is already once again Tuesday and time for T over  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.  Are you into the December spirit yet? I keep thinking it is November still because it feels like November, even if I do have my holiday decorations up, have been listening to some holiday tunes and have  watched a couple of holiday films. Smile.

Today I am taking you back to California for T.

At the end of our trip to California, we had driven up the coast from Ventura (near Los Angeles) up to the Monterey Peninsula, which is south of San Francisco.  This was the stretch of California coast we had never driven, as we did the very southern end of the coast (the Mexican border to the southern  side of LA) and the northern end (Oregon border to San Francisco) on 2 different trips many years earlier. 

This part of the coast was gorgeous and quite dramatic. 

I'll share more photos of this drive in another post on another day. At the end of this gorgeous road trip, we stayed in Carmel. Carmel is rather pricey, but we found a Best Western Hotel which was  reasonably priced, and even better, was  located right in town so we could leave the car at the hotel and walk around.

Since it is T day, I thought I would start with my T day drink as well as with the breakfast we had with it. 

You can see my drink is Diet Coke and my husband had a blue mug with some coffee. 

This little restaurant , The Cottage in Carmel, served breakfast and lunch. In some ways it reminded me of a cuter version of the hole in the wall place we used to frequent in our area before Covid. I had an omelet with cheddar cheese, avocado and chorizo sausage. We can't usually find chorizo in New Hampshire and I like it, so I definitely wanted that in my omelette. You had a choice of 2 sides so I got the fresh fruit and a thick slice of their cinnamon raisin bread. 

Sorry if this makes you hungry. It is making me hungry too, and since I love a big breakfast, wish I could have this now.

This was a yummy filling breakfast, and if I lived local I would go back there often. Seeing many of our trip breakfasts were the uninviting hotel freebies, this one was like breakfast of the gods. 

One thing I noticed and really enjoyed was that there were blooming flowers and plants everywhere. 

Here's the view from my seat at our table, looking out onto the sidewalk.

And as we walked through town after breakfast, I took lots of plant photos. 

And if you look carefully in the next few  photos, you should be able to pick out the hummingbird. (I only had my phone, not my camera, on me.) It was thrilling. Not only blooming flowers but hummingbirds in November!

Can anyone tell me what kind? (I am guessing Anna's hummingbird.) You can see the pop of that pretty pink-red on it in the last and this next photo.

And how about the giant succulents too?

Carmel was a lovely little town. If I had lots and lots of money I would buy a little bungalow in town and move there for the winter or at least for November so I could enjoy some green and flowers and even hummingbirds  while everything in New Hampshire goes into its winter sleep mode. Smile.

It is good to dream.

I hope you have a happy T day and week ahead.