more cambria

After lunch at Indigo Moon the first full day we were in Cambria, we all went to check out Cambria Nursery and Florist. I got so excited when I saw it, I kind of skipped, which is doubtless unbecoming a traditionally built woman my age. But sometimes you just have to get excited and show it, I think. :)

Claire announced she is saving up all her money for the rest of her life to buy all of these mushrooms. She really wants a ceramic mushroom garden.

It's the most beautiful nursery I've ever been to.

Here Bob is holding Claire up to see the flower thatching on the roof of this little playhouse.

I love friendly signage.

I can tell you that I am going to daydream about this place until the next time we go back.

Close by the Cambria Nursery and Florist is the Cambria Pines Lodge, which was built in the twenties, I think, and is very charming. The grounds are really lovely. Again, a very good place to live if you're one of the wee folk. Here is a fairy dwelling for you if you are.

Here is The Flower Bed. :)

And here is the gate to the butterfly garden. Did you ever?

I would love a sundial in our garden, but I haven't the slightest idea how to read one or set it up. Does it face North? Towards the sun? Antarctica? Towards Mecca? What? Also, I'm more of an Arabic numerals kind of gal.

I always love pretty gates and fences.

And they also had good firm yet pleasant signage. I think this is a good way to communicate in general . . . say what you mean clearly, but be nice about it, and keep it pretty.

So that wraps up my photos from Cambria. We had another night and half day there, and there were more yummy meals, some swimming in the pool, more trips to the beach, and more looking at cute shops. We all love this town.

Tomorrow I'll show you a couple photos from Lompoc on the way home, and then that is the end of our vacation. :)