Baby Needs A Break

Jeff's been working awfully hard lately - and I told him he should take some time off and just relax. So he took 9 days off and we figured we'd go somewhere. Only problem was, we couldn't figure out where we wanted to go. I wanted to go up where there'd be trees, and streams, and trails - and Jeff was thinking more along the lines of Tombstone, Bisbee, different ghost towns, etc...

So we packed, loaded up the SUV, and stood in the driveway and flipped a quarter...heads we go north - tails we go south. It was heads. So we drove for a while and ended up staying the night in Merced.

We woke up and thought we'd head to Sonora to go see my sister, Jennifer. Well somehow we got distracted, drove right past our exit, and ended up in Modesto. (That's taking the long way to get to Jenn's house!) So we stopped at a fruit stand (to find out what town we were even in). Got some great strawberries and cherries there.

While trying to get to Jenn we saw this cool barn - the road is littered with scenes like this!

We eventually made it to Sonora and had lunch with Jennifer and Quentin. We stayed and visited for a while and then we were back on the road. We drove the 108 to the Sonora Pass. Here's some of those pictures.

There was a beautiful field of flowers - the light was so beautiful.This was taken under a historic wooden bridge - lovely!Even the roads are cool.
I don't know if you can see it, but there was snow on the mountains - this was some of the run-off.
It was raining/snowing on us - but I had to hop out of the car and get the shot of this tree. It smelled amazing out in the forest with the rain.

This was at the end of the Sonora Pass. The light and colors were amazing. We turned off here and went to Lake Tahoe for the night. I'll let you know how that goes!