This is another picture of the ocean and beach the last time we were there. As I have said before I save folders on my desktop and when I want to move them off I look and there are pictures I want to post for Friday Photo. Here is a July photo.
Posts Tagged ‘beach’
July 2025 Beach
Posted by terrepruitt on October 3, 2025
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Ocean Blue
Posted by terrepruitt on September 5, 2025
Just a serene picture of the ocean from July for today’s Friday Photo.
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Colorful Coast
Posted by terrepruitt on April 4, 2025
Right on the beach there are these colorful little rentals. I have always wanted to stay here. Capitola Venetian Vacation Rentals are so cute. When we were there on Thanksgiving in 2024 there was still construction going on to fix them. The coastal storms keep battering them.
The colorful Capitola rentals for today’s Friday Photo.
Would you want to stay there?
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Memorial Fish
Posted by terrepruitt on March 14, 2025
The wharf was destroyed in 2023. It had little placards that were embedded in the railing as memorials to people and families. Walking along the new wharf it looks as if some of them were saved and added to the new wharf, but I also think these little fish are new memorials. They have names on them.
Sweet memorial fish for today’s Friday Photo. This photo is from when we visited Capitola on Thanksgiving in 2024. (There will be a few more photos.)
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Beach Scene
Posted by terrepruitt on October 13, 2023
This is an oldie but goodie. We haven’t been to the beach in a bit so I am posting an old photo for today’s Friday Photo. The waves rolling in look green to me, what about to you?
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Some Transfer You Might Not Want On Your Face
Posted by terrepruitt on October 9, 2023
When I was attending yoga classes regularly I was fortunate enough to be doing so in a “no-shoe” studio. And I know that the floors were cleaned regularly because, at one point, I was the one cleaning them. But I have often questioned how I roll my yoga mat and it occurred to me that I should be doing it a different way. Not all places where yoga is practiced is shoe free and sometimes floors could use some cleaning. So why is it standard to roll a yoga mat? The part that is on the floor – in some cases where participants don’t even want to step their feet – gets rolled onto the part where we put our head and our face.
I have to remember to fold then roll. If I fold my mat in half then roll it, the “back” or part that touches the floor, doesn’t end up on the “front/top” where my face and head go. And folding then rolling will limit the amount of transfer of dirt, grime, sand, grass, or whatever onto the “front/top” of the mat.
I happen to have a mat that has two distinct sides AND that has black transfer on it that can simulate dirt, so it makes a great example. It took me a minute to figure out what that black actually is . . . it is rubber from dumbbells. This can give an idea of the fold and roll method. The orange side that is on the ground gets rolled right up onto the patterned side where I put my face, unless I fold it first.
Most places probably have clean enough floors, but I know some do not so I am going to keep this method in mind. Also could work for when I take my mat outside. What do you think?
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Colorful Bottle Tree
Posted by terrepruitt on July 19, 2019
Some friends visited from out of town and stayed in Santa Cruz not far from the ocean. I have many photos from the delightful yard that I will be posting. It was a colorful and very fun yard!
Here is a bottle tree for the Friday Photo.
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Kabocha Squash
Posted by terrepruitt on November 26, 2018
Last week I decided to make pumpkin soup for Thanksgiving. Ever since our dads died we don’t really do Thanksgiving. My husband’s siblings are off with their kids and I don’t have any siblings. So we do our breakfast in Capitola – although we might have to actually eat breakfast somewhere else before going to Capitola as this year nothing was really open for full breakfast – and then we just eat whatever for dinner. Last year I didn’t even think to plan anything for dinner and I think we ended up going to Chavez market to get burritos. This year I decided to make pumpkin soup. The problem with that is pumpkins are gone from the stores by Thanksgiving. I sort of expected that, but I was HOPING there would be some, but there was not. I am very thankful for cellular service and Google – while standing in the store I decided to try something else. I was thinking any type of winter squash would work, it would just be squash soup. There was this not-so-attractive-green-pumpkiny looking thing and I looked it up and it is actually called a Japanese pumpkin. So cool. I decided to try the Kabocha squash.
As I said the Kabocha squash is also called a Japanese pumpkin. Wiki also said that it is even sweeter than butternut squash. I thought this was great as it would help cut down on the bitterness (although the Roasted Pumpkin Soup 2.0 recipe took care of that). The store also didn’t have any heavy cream so I got half and half. I thought that would be good too, since the kabocha squash is said to be sweeter. The half and half would be less sweet than the heavy cream so I was confident it would all work out fine.
Well . . . let me tell you, that Kabocha squash is SUPER difficult to cut. The skin is very thin, but it is super tough. It was a challenge. Not impossible, but way more time consuming than I had planned. I had planned to hop in the kitchen cut up the Japanese pumpkin and throw it in the oven then have time to do other things, but no, it was tough.
I roasted it with Milanese Gremolata olive oil, salt, and marjoram and it came out lovely. It is a very good squash.
Using it for the pumpkin soup was fantastic. It worked out great. I used the skin and all in the soup. I just roast it and then put the chunks in the blender. Now I know that I can get two sugar pie pumpkins and a Japanese pumpkin over the Fall Season. So that means one or two stuffed pumpkin dinners and/or making pumpkin soup one or two times.
We ate pumpkin soup for four days and we were actually sad last night to finish it. It was very good. Oh . . . . I did add a cup or two of broth each night when I heated it up. It got VERY, VERY thick. So I mixed in a cup or two (depending on how much I was heating up) to help thin it out.
Now you know you can make pumpkin soup with a sugar pie pumpkin or a Japanese pumpkin. Or perhaps you already knew that. Did you know about the Kabocha squash?
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Thanksgiving 2018
Posted by terrepruitt on November 23, 2018
We went to Capitola to have breakfast on Thanksgiving as we have done the last three years. Nothing was open for a full breakfast, but we got coffee and a burrito (John) and a bagel (me) at Mr. Toot’s. I had never been there so I was happy. It was a GORGEOUS day. We had just gotten a bit of rain and that helped wash the air of the smoke that we have been having from the fire that was almost 200 miles away.
We had a nice time. It was so beautiful I took a bunch of pictures I have to share at least one for the Friday Photo.
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Calla Lily
Posted by terrepruitt on August 17, 2018
Here is a Calla Lily for today’s Friday Photo. I love Calla Lilies. I think I love all lilies. How about you?
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: beach, Calla Lily, Capitola, flower, Friday Photo, Lilies, ocean | 2 Comments »
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