Traveling through Google...and more rains here!

Love google maps...never though to plant hunt on there though....nice plan Stan...my dads house view in there has his dogs standing in the wall.. But I wish they would update the pic of my garden it's grown loads since the mast one..lol

Happy travelling Stan!
Sandra, so do I - mine's just all grass and the house is dull grey pebbledash. It looks awful.

LOL! Two years ago, hub and I were talking about taking a sentimental journey to the city where we started our life together... long story short...we ended up going via google earth and it was fantastic... we saw all the old sites on a beautiful sunny day and were home for dinner! Now plant viewing is a bit different... but it's a great idea. I'm not sure how often they update the street level pics, though. ;-)
got side tracked with the Google thing...but hurrah for the rain! Hope you get lots more.

1.Here's what I also like about google. You can drive backwards and on the wrong side of the street..no problems. Its all google legal.
2. There are very,very,very, few hard core gardeners in the world. Not near as many as I hoped.
3. What really strikes you sometimes here in California? Is when Google June on any street becomes Google December when you go across the street, say. You then see the sky- sunny both times- change in brightness. How much brighter the sky is in summer..then go back and forth a time or two to sink in. Big difference.
4. My old house would fit in with downtown Key West just fine!..minus coconuts. The look is there.
More,when it comes to me..wink

wow- I just was in La Barca Jalisco..as close to Lake Chapala as could find for the moment. I saw a very healthy coconut palm in a tiny backyard.
Interesting that its the only one I've seen going up and down streets there and in similar Guadalajara.

Unfortunately Stan, if your virtual travel takes you to town of Ajijic on Lake Chapala..... where we are going every year..... , you will mostly see just high walls. All the beauty is behind these high walls of humble houses. And sometimes what you see behind the humble facade its breathtaking. There is a part on the east side of town called La Floresta (near Walmart) where planting outside is nice. I love to walk there all the time. It is a fun and colourful village otherwise. Lots of murals. Probably worth your virtual visit :-)
And BTW...you do not want to live in La Barca (trust me) Virtual visit is fine :-).

I did notice that..high walls everywhere in Mexico. Sometimes topped with another 6' of chain link and razor wire. Some of those homes look like prisons.
I have to wonder too about the electrical system-lol. Oh,wires going everywhere..like an overloaded strip outlet after all the PC and TV and stero stuff is plugged in.

Then,you have Beverley Hills..its not a neighborhood,its walls of tall hedges also,everywhere. Block after block. Its a bonanza for garden maintenance company's. NO way owners in BH do that..wink.

Santa Barbara is nicest of soucal seems to me. Looks like California I picture best of soucal.