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Walking on Banker's Hill, Part 1

 

The Banker's Hill neighborhood in San Diego is just "up the hill" about a mile from "down" town. We started in the morning as docents in a large house that was built in 1889; it was the first large home built this far "out of town" and was constructed in just one year, using some craftsmen and materials left from the completion of the Hotel del Coronado. The house was briefly owned by the governor of California, before one clan occupied it for 78 years. 

My wife was on the porch controlling the flow of folks on the tour of houses and gardens, while I stood in one of the public rooms, chatting with visitors and making sure they didn't pick up anything and walk off with it.







All the pillars in my rooms were carved with floral motifs from the surrounding area



Here's the native Matilija poppy which regular readers would have seen last week on our walk in the canyons, from which the carvers got their pattern. HERE IS THE LINK







Octopus's Garden still in progress.






then we went to a community garden whose charter was to beautify the neighborhood rather than grow vegetables.






but did take a good look at the gardens.



I am looking at the flowers, not those terrible internal combustion machines in the foreground here, even though my feet were getting sore and I could have used a ride..



I was alert enough to notice the rodents at my feet.



The flowers WERE really nice, and



so they deserved pollination.