Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Susan Reimer

Garden Variety has returned from The Left Coast, as we like to say, where she spent Thanksgiving with her son, and the sun!

I mention the weather because all my Mid--Atlantic friends seem to have spend Thanksgiving dodging raindrops.

While in San Diego, Garden Variety and the man who edges her beds took the daughter who cooks with her herbs to the San Diego Zoo.

They took pictures of all the animals; while Garden Variety took pictures of all the flowers. And there were plenty of them.

It was a hibiscus festival in the Zoo, with more varieties and colors than I have ever seen back East.

There were lots of tropicals and succulents, as you might expect to find in November in San Diego.

But the azaleas, the snapdragons, the geraniums and the daylilies were plentiful, too.

Oh. Did I mention? We went to the beach on Thanksgiving Day.