2nd Post for Saturday, September 4, 2010 - Brenda's Photo Challenge - Lunch at Lulu's

2nd Post for Saturday, September 4, 2010

Brenda's Photo Challenge 

 Lunch at Lulu's

I already did my Saturday blog post on Camera Critters but I didn't want to miss out on

the photo essay at The Brenda Photo Challenge so I'm doing a second post.  These

pictures were take a couple of weekends ago when my son and I and his girlfriend,

Katie, were taken out to lunch at Lulu's, a well known San Francisco restaurant

( the three of us had never been there before ) but Katie's mom, Joan, who lives in

San Diego has .  We had a great time.  It's one of those places that is packed for

lunch during the week but we had it almost to ourselves late on Sunday afternoon.

We ended up ordering a number of dishes and sharing them all.  They were all really

good - we had two salads, We had two salads - one argula with heirloom tomatoes,
cucumbers & tomatoes and the other was a watermelon, roasted beet & chevre. The
spicy prawn pizza with sun dried tomatoes and basil pesto was my favorite. We also
had roasted mussels with drawn butter and roasted garlic and goat cheese ravioli with
sun dried potatoes and pine nuts. We were far too full for dessert but our first course,
doughnuts with meyer lemon curd more than made up for that!

Bedtime - Brenda Photo Challenge - June 19, 2010, Starring Taffy & Bucky

Well, this was a little difficult for me.  I thought of sneaking upstairs and getting a picture of Jeremy, my 6'4" son, but he sleeps sprawled all over the bed and that might have been difficult.  Besides, at 25, he's not all that cooperative about my blog photos.  You would think he was a movie star or something, the way he acts when I come around with my camera.  I'm sure Brad Pitt's mother doesn't get the hand out in front of his face when she is trying to capture him for her digital records.  I also considered having Jeremy get my bedtime picture but that isn't really a pretty sight, either - me in sweat pants and sweat shirt ( hey, it gets down to the low 60's here at night ), with my CPAP machine on, looking like an alien from a far away galaxy.

Finally, I remembered my sweet, loving granddogs, Taffy and Bucky, who never mind having their pictures taken, when I go up to West Sacramento to see them and their parents, my son, Alex, and his beautiful, wonderful, brilliant wife, Laura.  They finally got married May 7th.  I haven't seen them since the big event but I must get up there soon.  I'm just waiting for my injured leg to heal since it is still uncomfortable to walk and even drive!

Usually, when I visit, the doggies sleep with me.  Of course, Laura and Alex have to shut their door or my granddogs will always sleep with them in their big California king bed, rather than my twin bed.  I remembered taking some pictures last time I was there, where they were already on my bed asleep ( no room left for me! ).  I had to wake them up, get in bed first, then they jumped on the bed and adjusted themselves to me. 

I am participating in the The Brenda Photo Challenge - Bedtime