Palm reading Coronado Island style

We didn’t stay in the Hotel de Coronado, but we had a grand time walking around outside and admiring the grounds as well as the stately building itself. Palm trees are iconically California (and Arizona), but they do a lot of shedding and take a great deal of work, work you have to pay someone else to do. I’ll stick with just admiring them on someone else’s property. 🙂

Past Squares: trees

Golden walls

Some years ago we were in Philadelphia for our younger daughter’s graduation from art school. Our very nice hotel had golden walls, probably paid for by the not-inexpensive rates they charged, but we did have a grand time and an enormous room that served as a gathering place for the entire clan.