Blue and Red and White for Blue Monday

I decided it was about time I posted again on here. 

Just in time for Blue Monday anyway since I got some 

Red, White and Blue photos to share.

Thank you to Sally over at Smiling Sally for 

being such a gracious host for so long.

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On July 3rd we went downtown to the plaza thinking 

there was going to be the usual Farmer's Market.

But surprise it was not being held this time.

Due to the holiday I guess.

Even without the Farmer's Market,

it was still amazingly busy in the plaza area.

Too hot to stay in I guess.

 I mean that is why we went there 

in the first place.

 Gotta assume all those other people had the same thought.

 This is the town hall in the middle of the plaza.

It is a historic building now.

The farmer's market is usually all around this building.

So we decided instead to take a walk around the plaza.

We have been increasing how much we walk and the plaza 

is a great place to do that.

 The plaza is surrounded on all four sides by streets in a square pattern and 

these buildings that I got pictures of are along those streets.
This one is of the Swiss Hotel.

 This one is Mary's Pizza. We have never eaten here yet.

Not this one anyway. But we have eaten at other locations.

 See how many people were enjoying the plaza. 

There are two play areas there

and many people were relaxing and dining with friends and family.

 This is the Toscano Hotel and too the right you can see the 

barracks of the Sonoma Mission. Another historic place.

Many of the buildings around the plaza are historic as well.

 We continue on around the plaza and come to the 

Ledson Hotel. A restaurant is on the first floor.

 And now we are back around to the front side of the

town hall again. We actually walked around this block twice.

Got our exercise in that night.

 People were setting up their chairs that night to save their 

places for the parade the next day.

I had no idea people did that. 

We did not go back to watch the parade. 

Too many people and we don't like to be in big crowds.

Lots of BLUE in those pictures!

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Today we took a Sunday drive!

We should do that more often and drive on roads we have never 

driven on before.

 This was one our views along the drive.

Beautiful blue sky today.

Hardly anybody passed us on this portion of our drive.

So nice and relaxing.

 A close up of that windmill!

 Today was another hot day!

Time to make smoothies

Non-fat plain yogurt,

BLUEBERRIES,

peaches,

mangoes,

And blend.

Except for the bananas, 

all the fruit was frozen.

Made for nice cold smoothies!

The end product.

I thought they would turn out more 

BLUE

since there were no strawberries in them this time.

But, they were just as yummy!

Stay Cool!

~Linnea~