Home Base

During this period where I've had no internet, I was happy to find a local cafe with internet.  This place is awesome!!! 

It's a small hole-in-the-wall sort of place, but exploding with personality.  They have delicious paninis, smoothies, coffee, and desserts...plus wi-fi!!  I spent many of my days planted here for hours during the first few weeks in town. 

They make these sodas from syrups and soda water.  Delicious!!

The smoothies are really good too!

I love the decor as well, I need to go back and get more shots soon. 

That's all for today, off to the beach!!

Now the internet is lost in the foothills too...

Aaaannnnndddddddddddddd....I'm back!  I can't remember the last time I got online, seriously!  We are staying with the Manos family here in PA and they just got back from 3 weeks in California.  The plan was to have good ol' internet company trot down and hook us up to the grid, however for some reason they couldn't find our house.  Apparently, Eagle Rock Resort:

Amazing isn't it....sorry I got distracted by its beauty and my amazing photography skills (j/k).  All the roads had the same name.  All of the hundred or so roads HAD THE SAME NAME.  Hmm....well they thought about it and decided that might be confusing; all roads were given unique names but this just confused all local businesses.  You see where I'm going here?  Needless to say, internet company X was too lazy to use google maps and look us up.  Internet company Y has much better customer service and literally found us on Google's satellite image.  Sis Manos: "Yup, we have a green roof, you found us!!" Hope is in site...and in a week we'll maybe, possibly, by the grace of God and GPS's we will have internet at the house!!

All that to say I haven't been online and a quick visit to my in-laws provides a ripe opportunity for a plethora of posts so I can catch up.  I hope to do one a day, today, tomorrow, and Wednesday.  Then I go dark, then maybe Monday I'll be able to sit in my pj's with cup of coffee and blog away from the comfort of home again. 

Last time I promised sunsets and a cafe...I'll give you sunsets and tomorrow the cafe.  Enjoy:

In the bottom left you can see the lake that is just minutes from the house.  Most of the valley you see is Eagle Rock Property.

The 200mm zoom lens makes this look very compressed.  I love the layers of hills leading up to the last light of the day.

I named this "reminiscing" but I like "solitude" better.  Just a man and his thoughts at the end of the day.

Last thing: if you click on any photos it will bring them up much larger.  They look good bigger, go ahead-try it. 

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