Delray Beach - Week 1 - January 6 - 13, 2013

Welcome to Delray . . . and Tina's house . . .

View from Tina's front door . . .

From front door looking at path to the pool . . .

 From South Ocean Boulevard towards house . . . cuts through to Gleason St.

Street side of house

 Tina's garden . . . 

 Hibiscus under the kitchen window . . .

Tina picking hibiscus in the morning for her Buddah . . .

Bougainvillea . . . in so many colors

 Path to pool . . .

The pool  . . .

Tina's front door and terrace . . . 

Off to the Morikami Japanese Museum & Gardens . . . in Delray Beach a few miles away.

Tina after a lovely lunch in the museum restaurant . . .

 Turtles sunning on a rock . . .

Curious ibis . . .

Beautiful Japanese gardens and paths . . .

Bamboo used to train the branches of the trees . . .

Tina enjoying the outing . . . and shopping in the museum store.

Looking back to the museum galleries, store and restaurant . . .

This building was the original museum, but is now used for the children's interactive museum which is set up like a house and a school with a courtyard.

 For Tara and Jen!

I love this garden in the courtyard!

Bonsai display

 Carp and turtles swimming in the pond 
with a waterfall behind spilling into the pond . . .

Japanese Tea Ceremony demonstration as part of the Oshogatsu New Year Celebration
. . . the year of the SNAKE!

Morning sunrise over the Atlantic ocean ~ during my morning walk . . .

Met up with June Lynch's sister Jean for yoga and lunch . . . 

Please note rhinestone sun glasses ~ Thanks Michelle!

At the yoga studio - East Boca Yoga . . .

As I am on "sabbatical", I have decided this is a spiritual retreat . . . 

and I am reading Thich Nhat Hanh books and meditating 

and walking meditations along the beach.

This is the traveling altar that John B. loaned me for this journey . . . 

Fresh flower every morning . . .

Nassau St. is two streets over . . . 

 . . .  and so ends week #1