Through My Eyes

Have you ever wondered why if feels as if the world sometimes revolves around you? I know it really doesn't but humor me a minute. I'll be honest I have felt that way.....a lot! Everyday I wake up and I SEE the world and everything around me through MY eyes! I think with MY mind and I feel with MY heart! I don't do it in someone elses body....do you???
Most days you get up and roll through the motions of the day. But there are days that MY mind looks at something and wonders...."why do I look at something that way?" Sometimes watching my Princes I wonder what things look like to them through their eyes. Or sometimes I wonder if I am the only one that sees beauty in the ordinary. My Knight and I made a break from the everyday norm of our lives with the Princes a few weekends ago. Because for the past few months I have been dealing with something and someone that was killing me inside up until recently. I was told that dealing with this person had brought up feelings of anger, resentment and abandonment. So for the past few months the world did revolve around ME, MY feelings and MY thoughts. Funny thing is I thought I had fought those demons a long time ago.....but I guess I just buried them instead. So I began to think about why it feels like the world revolves around me. I know what I see and how I feel about things....and I know that the people around me see what they see and feel what they feel through there own eyes. It is kinda of a eerie feeling when you think about it. Then I began to think about all the memories someone has and how each one is different from different people..you know like a memory of a grandparent and how each grandchild has a memory of them.....even when they are about the same memory. All these things I began to wonder as we drove down to Santa Cruz for the start of our weekend away. Crazy I know right weekend away with the hubby and I am thinking weird stuff! I probably need help....Nah! I thought and wondered as we drove as the scenery changed. As we drove through the city and onto Hwy 17 and headed toward Santa Cruz the city stopped and the trees began. I can't really explain how it felt to go from a city to a forest (sorta)....because it wasn't a type of forest I was use to. But as we drove through this stretch of highway and the trees changed I began to see home and I began to realize that I have known this beauty all my life and I never knew it! I guess once you have lived in one place long enough it doesn't seems new and beautiful. All the thoughts and worries of what I had been dealing with no longer seemed to plague my mind and weight down my heart. I didn't take a picture of this beautiful drive we were driving and snapping pictures as we drove would have not been a beautiful sight. But I thought I would share our trip through MY eyes....or camera which ever you prefer!
Our first stop after our long drive down was to Natural Bridges State Beach. It was beautiful....breath taking....and just awesome! The first part we did was the Butterfly Trail. I LOVE butterflies!

Monarch Butterfly

There were several hundred up resting in the trees!

Once we watched these beautiful insects for a while we trekked back up the trail to the beach. There were lots of people on the beach. I had kinda wished that there had been less....so you could really enjoy the quiet breath taking view. Now this beach so got it's name because of the giant rock that has been left to stand in the ocean as what looks like it's all by it's self...but it is not I just could not get a beautiful shot of the other bridge that jets out from shore just to the left of this one. To many people!!

See breath taking!

This is why it is called Natural Bridges Beach

After this we just drove up Hwy 1 to Half Moon Bay. It was a wonderful drive.....calm and beautiful. I kept dreaming of a beach house somewhere and living in it and waking every morning to a beautiful view of the beach. Sitting on the porch with my morning cup of coffee with creamer! Watching the waves and listening to the sounds of everything around me. Or even watching my Princes play on the beach and enjoying the screams of laughter! Even now as I write I can envision this beach house and beach.
Any who.....as we drove I daydreamed. Once through Half Moon Bay we turned onto Hwy 92. Now as we drove up the coast and on to the 92 we saw lots and lots of these.

The 4th or 5th Pumpkin patch.

 This one was taken the first stretch of Hwy 92. And we saw about a dozen total from Santa Cruz up and on the 92. And probably 6 or more just on the 92 alone! We also saw some of these.....

Yep that's right Dinosaurs by the Bay!

Seriously do you see this everyday?

 Once past all the Pumpkin patches and Dino's the drive was quite pretty. The landscape began to change and the trees lined the road side. If I could have stopped I would have and just breathed in the wonderful calm and beauty of it all. After driving on the 92 we headed for our hotel. Checked in and found a place for dinner. Then back to our room for a goodnight sleep.
Sunday morning came a little to early for me! But we rolled out of bed and packed up and head to our next days adventure. We head up to Pier 39 in San Francisco. And it just so happened to be Fleet Week! There were people everywhere! Once we found parking and walked to the Pier we were ready for some lunch. We ate at the Wipe Out Bar and Grill. Not to bad.....but I have had better. After we walked the Pier...stopped in shops etc.

Sea Lions

San Francisco view from the Pier.

He posed for me.

Alcatraz 

All the boats

Magic Show

The Carousal

View from the second floor...see a LOT of people!

Driving home

 Now that we have been some place new to us....I am so planning another trip! Just next time more stops and more pictures. So you may all be wondering why I started this post about the way I see things? Well look back at my last pictures......nothing special right? Just our car driving on the bridge right? Simple, unimportant right? Yeah maybe to you....but to me? This was what I saw through MY eyes.....this was the drive home....the drive back to reality......to MY life...to MY world. What do you feel from this picture? Nothing? Maybe to you......but to me? I feel love, joy and thankfulness. How could I feel that from this picture you may ask? Look and this picture again.....I am sitting in the passenger seat right?  Well I am sitting next to MY love, MY joy and MY thankfulness! See I don't look at the world and just wander through it mundanely everyday...maybe once in awhile but not everyday. See to me the things I see and feel are not the same as other people.....or maybe they are and just don't know it. The last few months have made me become more aware that our lives shouldn't be mundane. And a conversation with a friend of mine who is separated right now made me realize not to be so critical of others and to make sure and take the time to tell those important to you that you love them. So you see the world does in a sense revolve around you.....but only because it is your world......the way YOU see and feel it everyday!

 

JUST SAYING!

 Now I am warning you all I am not talking about you all being important.....you know like being SOMEBODY!!! So don't be thinking that!