I just went to visit my daughter Dre,
in Pacific Grove California.
The roads were downright Hollerific,
with scenery just like Hollerdom.
There were Hollerish folks,
like this army veteran who loves butterflies and Hillary Clinton. (You have to play, “Where’s Hillary? and look for her in the first butterfly house photo. Click to enlarge to see her clearly!)
The critters were different,
but it’s nice to know there are Hollers everywhere,
with creative folks, living in natural places, with wild animals,
that are protected.
Cheers to you from Dre’s Holler~
For more info on the PG Butterfly House check out: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/article/NE/20150316/NEWS/150319767
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love the drivethrough barn!
That is a great name for it!
Looks like a good place to live, great photos Cindy
Yes, I think it is a wonderful place to live and thank you Eddie!
The Hollerific are absolutely terrrr-ific!! Great photos and love the part about the humans protecting the animals!!
When I was a kid there were very few seals or sea lions and no otters. Now we have lots of all three!
Gotta love being on the left coast and with family – hope you are having a hollerific time!
It definitely is left of center! Cheers to you Antionette~ 😉
Hermosas fotos, saludos
Gracias y saludos tan bien!
Pacific Grove is so beautiful! How lucky for your daughter that she gets to live there! I just love the butterfly house… and, of course, the gorgeous scenery.
Don’t you love the person who has the courage to create and live in this house!
What a gas! I once lived seaside and there’s something there, like a sense of being on a perpetual vacation, that seems to encourage things like the butterfly house. We have our hollers here in Maine, too. There are probably hollers everywhere…..
Thank God for Hollers and the people who live in them. There is something pretty amazing about a person who defies public opinion and creates a space wholely reflective of themself. I love it, but lack the courage and inspiration!
Beautiful photos! That seal though, looks like it’s doing planking lol 🙂
Laughing, working off some excess cals!
With perfect form at that! 😄
🙂 <3
Beautiful photos of the beach, the butterfly house, and the trail, … Cindy! Happy to know people there are protect wild animals.
Sounds like you had a great time visiting your daughter. 🙂
It is really heartening to see the return of seals, sea lions and otters after the passage of The Marine Mammal Protection Act. When I was a kid they were pretty much obliterated.
Beautiful view, so inspiring… 🙂
Awww, so glad! Thank you~
Schöne Fotos.
Vielen dank mein lieber Freund Wolfgang!
That is such a beautiful, colorful area on many levels. Love the photo tour! 🙂
So happy you came on the tour with me Lavinia & be well my friend~
Gorgeous pictures, I really love the butterfly house. I am glad you had a terrific time with your daughter.
I wish we could have met the person who lives in that house!
Wonderful photos – I just love that butterfly chair.
The person who lives in that house should run for president. I think he/she might be a big improvement over the current contenders…..
Another interesting part of your world, Cindy. Thanks for sharing.
Leslie
Thank you more for appreciating Leslie~
<3
Beautiful
Thank you!
it is so beautiful there –
It is, and still almost pristine in parts~
Love these photos! What a great old barn!
So happy you like the barn Lynn. I loved it too!
Hollerific is terrific! Hope you had the best time with your daughter, and that different critter is gorgeous!
He’s a cute little chubbo isn’t he!
Yeah!!! 😀
What a lovely place!
Yes, so pleased you like it & thank you~
How wonderful. Beautiful scenery and adorable seals.
Those seals are heartbreakers and rather well fed! <3
I like Dre’s Holler, Cindy. 🙂
She will read this and be happy! <3
Absolutely beautiful pictures! Love the butterflies!
There is a wonderful love story to go with the butterfly house that I just happened upon.
She found herself a lovely environment and a colorful one ! ☺
California’s coastline becomes impossibly scenic once you hit Big Sur. As a born and bred SoCaly I have to admit the central coast is hands down the most beautiful.
Wonderful photos. I used to live in the Bay Area and miss some of that kind of life (but not the cost of living there.)
The cost of living is a serious detriment to the quality of life and is a real shame.
Lovely Hollerific pictures. The barn view is just perfect!
So glad you like the barn! I am partial to pastoral scenes.
Lucky Dre to live in such hollerdom! Great captures Cindy! I hope you had a fun visit with her as well as the seals 😎
Thank you Val. I had a blast with her and the seals!
Awesome Cindy! We’ll have to add that to our must see list!
Be see to include time in Big Sur. It is probably the most beautiful part of California.
We love that neck of the woods! For 18 years we trekked up to the Monterey/Santa Cruz area to attend family camp at Mt Hermon just outside Felton and Roaring Camp off of hwy 17. Such great memories!
Oh I can imagine those are very special memories!
When it comes to places to live, your daughter has great taste too! Must run in the family Cindy! I’ve never been to this part of California so I’m glad to see it here to pique my interest in making a trip someday. Look at that laid-back beach and countryside, culture, and wildlife! <3
I agree with you Lynn as always! What more could one want? Countryside, culture and wildlife! It works for me too as you well know! I hope you do go and drive up through Big Sur. It’s a nice trip from SB.
Such beauty, right in the USA. Wonderful photos!!
We have so much incredible beauty right here in the US of A!
Great shots, I particularly like the seals!
They are pretty adorable aren’t they!
Gorgeous pics! Love your posts!
Awww, makes me glad I posted them! <3
What beautiful place and great photos..
So pleased you enjoyed them & cheers to you~
Great photos! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you more for appreciating!
You are so welcome. I love your photos.
Lovely. Just lovely! ❤️
You are a lovely friend Cate! <3
So cool. They bark their displeasure and happiness!
I do that too! 😉
That’s quite alright!
An explosion of (beautiful) colors. 🙂
Yes! The man in the butterfly house hand made all those butterflies for his wife who was losing her eyesight but could see bright colors~
Looks beautiful! Wow that house is something else! Very colorful! Boo I couldn’t find Hillary! I shall have to look closer! Hugz Lisa and Bear
Yay I found it Cindy! tee hee! Hugz
Hillary is hiding there! It’s is unusual for Hillary to hide! 😉 😉
Another fascinating world!
We should swap our country abodes and see who cries uncle first!! I bet I would be happy as a cat in custard in your Shendoah spread~
I’ve always enjoyed Pacific Grove, Cindy. And Monterey and Carmel, and Big Sur. I started going there in the 60s. –Curt
Yep, depending on how old you are, we probably played in the sand somewhere there when we were kids.
I was playing for sure, Cindy… but it was as an adult. (grin) That’s how old I am. I did, however, play on beaches in the area as a child. That would have been in the 50s. My grandparents lived in several towns along the coast and my grandfather loved to ocean fish. We got to go along and play. It’s where my love of the ocean got its start. –Curt
Yep.I was actually born in a hospital on the sea in La Jolla. Salt water runs in my veins. We probably made drip castles in the sand on some beach.
What a Drerifc place! I could live there forever. The photos are sealed with purrrfection.
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Dear Cindy, what a beautiful photographs and place, loved them. Thank you, have a nice day, Love, nia
Hugs & cheers back to year Nia! <3
Beautiful photos! All of them. <3
So happy you enjoyed them & thank you!
You´re welcome! <3 🙂
:star:
Wunderschön !!!
Vielen dank mein lieber Freund!
Looks like a lovely spot…love the glimmering seals.
They look fat, healthy and happy, which makes me happy too!
Happy place, Cindy – hope the visit with Dre was a great time also. She’s probably too old for butterfly kisses but I guess one cannot help but keep them coming and going 😀
One is never too old for butterfly kisses and I am sending some back to you my dear friend! <3
<3 XXXXX
Great pictures as always, Cindy. That’s quite a place. 🙂 — Suzanne
Merci beaucoup mon ami~
I saw her, Hollery Clinton. Nice pictures, greate place.
She’s hiding in there amongst the flutterbyes! 😉
Your daughter’s Holler is beautiful, too — and I love the seals!!!
They are so darn cute aren’t they, with their tails and heads up everytime a wave passes by. They want to stay dry darn it! 😉