Here is my meaning of Mother's Day. My 18 year old daughter, Cayla--and my 15 year old son, Ethan. (Saying goodbye to Cayla at the Santa Barbara train station before she heads back to finish her freshman year at UCLA). These are the two humans that created my role of motherhood. Thank you, ahhh, most of the time. Teenagers are teenagers...
Behind the shops is a beautiful creek--one of downtown San Luis obispo's hidden treasures!
Cayla munching on a pickle she picked up at Old Edna's Cafe and Antiques!
Cayla and her UCLA pal, John at the Farmer's Market in SLO.
We parked by this quaint Inn on Garden Street.
Cayla was embarrassed as I snapped pics of the old painted sign unearthed on one of the buildings being retrofitted in SLO. She said I looked like "such a dorky tourist" !
Cayla relaxing at Old Edna's with the gorgeous lilacs next to the picket fence!
Thanks, my sweet daughter of 18 years. It was a pleasure to have some mother-daughter time!
My beautiful daughter, Cayla, and her best friend, Ryan, stopped by Whimsy on 7th on their way back to UCLA to pick up a tote bag so Cayla can use it to carry all those expensive text books to her Spring classes! They had Spring Break and Cayla worked at Whimsy for a few days.
Whimsy has a great selection of Carpinteria fruit crate label tote bags, among others. All totes are $20 each and are great for farmer's market, shopping, beach trips, and...school books!
Lori
Spring Break, and it had just rained the day before, so we headed up North to Los Alamos, Los Olivos, and Solvang, for a beautiful drive.
Ethan, my darling 15 year old son.
My two men .
He is checking me out, as I am checking him out.
Gorgeous vineyards at Firestone Vineyards.
My 15 year old son, Ethan and hubby, Alan and I set out to see the whale that took up residency in the harbor for a few weeks. 
First, before we left on our daily hike with our neighbor's sweet dog, Annie, we paid a tree company to take down our other neighbor's 100 foot plus dangerous eucalyptus tree. These next door neighbors are not nice at all and refused to do anything about the menace and when the wind blows, this tree threatens our house and our lives, so after 15 years--we decided to take it down. Sorry owls and birds, but my children need to sleep in safety...