We made a stop by Carmel. This beautiful seaside community has a wonderful floral law on the books that requires all local businesses to use only real flowers both inside and outside of their establishments. This was just one of a myriad of lovely flowers we encounterd on our walking tour. The colors are striking.
This is a sample of the cottages that inspired Thomas Kincaid in his many paintings. There are many fairy tale cottages in Carmel. In fact, Thomas Kincaid's first gallery is in Carmel and we saw it on our tour. The flowers in the next picture are from a hanging basket in front of his Gallery.
The flora we saw was absolutely stunning. Few places we have seen can compare to the beauty that is abundant in this eccentric little community of one square mile. Doris Day still lives here and she has a hotel we visited on the tour call the Cypress Inn. Quite lovely.
There are also a great number of dog lovers in this community.
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