Not so far from home......

There is one never fail thing i can find from cali when i need something from home.....produce!!! Today while i was grocery shopping i picked up a pint of strawberries.To my surprise when i got home i noticed they were from Santa Maria.....just about 15 miles from where my grandfather lived when i was a child and still has a house just a few blocks from the beach in Pismo Beach

After i got home from shopping i carefully picked what i thought would be the best strawberry in the basket...........for a split seconded after that first bite of fresh ripe strawberry....i was taken back to the road side strawberry stand surrounded by rows and rows of green strawberry bushes dotted with fresh red ripe ready to be picked berries just a few blocks from my grandfathers house. That dampness and scent of the ocean air....what i would do to be there right now.

When i am in Cali next week i won't get to visit that strawberry stand as it is almost two hours from where my parents live.....but i will always have the memories......in any basket of berries.