On To The Coast

After visiting the Joss House

in Weaverville we headed across

the street for a delicious Chinese lunch

and a little more hot tea to warm up with. 

I did forget to mention

in my last post

that the Joss House

is the oldest continuously used

Chinese temple in California.

The first temple building was

destroyed by fire in 1861.

Wildfires raged again in 1873, and

once again destroyed the Taoist temple.

Construction on the current Joss House

was started in February 1874.

I was rather fond of these fortunes.

They seemed very appropriate to

a certain situation going on in

my circle of friends,

but never mind about that.

*Edited to add:

Showing my cookie fortunes

wasn't meant to slam a friend

who reads this post.

Receiving these particular fortunes

was  just perfect timing.  That's all.

The fortune I received from the temple was:

Bei Di, High Northern Emperor No. 40

Extremely good fortune

Han Xiangzi

The wild swan soars up to the sky,

and attains his freedom;

In such a time of joy and celebration,

his spirits are high.

Today he finds carefree ease in the ascent;

Gliding, flying, he tops the nine-fold heaven. 

Isn't that pretty?

 Going to the coast was sort of

a spur of the moment idea.

I know I really ~ really wanted to

see the Lion Dance, especially after

knowing that it's possibly the last one

to be performed at the Joss House

for who knows how long if the

state closes the park.

So Thursday night we decided

to go, and hey, we might as

well go all the way to the coast

since Weaverville is half way.

 Well ~~~ It was a good way of psyching

ourselves into going to the coast

for just one night because

actually Weaverville is

 only one third of the way across

the mountains to the coast.

But it was so worth it ~

to enjoy this misty

cold morning view

of Trinidad Bay.

We don't usually visit Trinidad

in the middle of winter.

We usually head there durring

the summer to escape the valley heat.

October is actually a good

month to visit the coast.  It isn't the rainy

season yet, and the summer fog has

gone away.

   

 

This is the Trinidad Bay Bed and Breakfast Inn.

http://www.trinidadbaybnb.com/

 Wouldn't this be a beautiful place to stay?

It's right across the street from the lighthouse.

Rick checked on Friday

 and they didn't have rooms.

Thank goodness: 

 I just saw how much they charge per night.  Yikes!

* edited to add:

Rick says they have winter rates. Yay!

We stayed at the Trinidad Inn, the same

place we did last time. Here's the blog

post done last summer about the Trinidad Inn.

http://patricia-heythereitsme.blogspot.com/2011/08/trinidad-inn.html

     

Here's a neighbor out for his

morning ride.

How about that?

Here's a closer look from behind.

I'm thinking that's a pretty cool ride

for Seniors.

Even this cat on the roof is

seeking out the morning sun.

Next post:

 We're down to the beach

 watching a couple of

lucky locals enjoying their

morning run.

Here's one last look at the light house replica.

The actual lighthouse looks the same

and is located on the ocean side of the

peninsula to the right hand side of this photo.