Palm Springs

One of our timeshare weeks was about to run out, so we booked a 2 bedroom in Palm Springs. With 2 bedrooms, we can invite family to join us, so that works out well. Palm Springs is a desert resort area about 2 hours from San Diego County, but it feels like a different world. It has a totally different climate and you can really feel like you "got away" without going very far. That's one of the great benefits of living in San Diego.

Here's my granddaughter Grace on the play equipment at the resort. Hard to believe she's 3 already!

My son Nate (the professional photographer) and I took a hike up Murray Canyon. He taught me a few Photoshop tricks which I can use in my real estate photography!

Murray Canyon is home to one of the largest groves of fan palms in the world, and runs all the way up to the Pacific Crest Trail. The "easy" part of the hike ends about 2 miles up at a series of small waterfalls call the "Seven Sisters".

After this point, you have to go bushwhacking and rock scrambling to go further up canyon. So of course we did. I had to stretch way out on a cliff to get this next shot of two of the Seven Sisters and a group of palms. It was a challenge, but I got it!