Went out to my hometown of Claremont, California yesterday for Easter. Claremont is a small sweet Southern California college town. Such a cute place it is…was happy to go home for the holiday.
Had a lovely Easter brunch with my very very nice sis DS (uh I add an extra very because I just found out my floors were done wrong at my cottage in the Hollywood Hills so I may have to stay with sis DS for two more weeks), my wonderful mother and the very sweet TE. We had a really nice time together. Good conversation and lots of warm laughter.
Before brunch, as TE and I drove into the little town square there we noticed a beautiful little park with gorgeous pink and purple flowering trees and plants. After our brunch, we stopped off to take photos. It was a bit of cloudy day and I was in light blue Easter dress and heels but I found myself somewhat inelegantly bending, stretching, standing with legs akimbo to get the best shot of all of the stunning blooms. It seems that TE is a better photographer than me though…for every 30 photos I took, he took one really beautiful one…hmmmm…note to self…take some photography lessons. Anyhooo…here are some views of some lovely spring pink and purple blooms in the middle of Claremont. Some good ideas for my garden next spring!
I should dedicate this post to best of friend AM who loves the color pink and who has passed that love of all things pink onto her little boo boo daughter. AM hope you enjoy this one!
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| Pink azaleas! (above) |
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| Is this purple flower a lilac? Please identify! (above) |
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| I think the pink flowering tree is called an Empress tree….it was so beautiful. (above) |
Hope you all had a nice weekend!
Happy Monday!
xo
Coco
P.S. Have been eating non stop for the last 24 hours because Lent is over! This year, I gave up corn, anything with flour, potatoes, sugar and dried mangoes for over 40 days. Oy va voy. This year was hard. On Easter morning TE made me a cute basket complete with corn chips, an apple fritter, bundt cake from a delish bakery called Nothing Bundt Cakes, boxes of pasta, truffles, chocolate, jelly beans and a stuffed Easter bunny. I spent the day nibbling at the basket and then finished off the day requesting pizza for dinner (which TE went out and picked up from a great place in Santa Monica). Sounds crazy…I know…but 40 days without anything quite decadent in the food department would drive anyone crazy…right???? Or wrong???
Photos: All photos in this post by Coco of COCOCOZY
Glorious! What a beautiful display of Spring’s beauty!
The purple flower is statice. It’s pretty easy to grow from seed and it makes great dried flowers.
Thank you for identifying the flower KLW! Appreciate it!
So beautiful!
No, the purple flowered bush isn’t a lilac. Positive.
Beautiful INDEED!!!
I don’t know how you survived 40 days with that list, I think I’d buy myself a new mercedes if I could keep off all those items for that long! I went 7 without eating Nutella and that was a major feat for me! I keep trying to give up sweets, have cut back considerably, but chocolate would be impossible for me, so I’m impressed Coco!
As KLW & Anon said: not a lilac. My parents have a lilac bush it smells heavenly, you should get one for your little house in the Hollywood hills, they come in dark purple or light purple, both smell great.
TE is definitely a keeper! How is Mr.Boo doing?
🙂
mikky
http://www.todaloos.com
I might try out a lilac bush…thank you so much for the suggestion! Congrats on the 7 days without Nutella! 🙂 Mr. Boo is good – a little wobbly but good. He got a major hair cut the other day and looks quite cute! Have a great week! xo Coco
Hi Coco,
Thanks for the encouragement, next step 40 days without Nutella! Glad to hear that Mr.Boo is doing better.
xo
mikky