Victoria's Garden

Victoria is a granddaughter of the owner. I asked if I could take photos and the lady behind the counter asked me if it was for a class. I said no and then she asked what I was taking the photos for and I said it was just for me. She said OK.

This place in on the corner of Ashwood and Willow Road in Lakeside. It seems like an out of the way place but it is on the way to Barona Casino. I used to turn at the opposite corner every day on my way to drop off and pick up Hailey for school. Last year I saw all the bright lovely pumpkins and kept thinking I would stop sometime and take some photos...Unfortunately my way back from the school didn't pass this way. Can't turn left out of El Cap High School. Today I started thinking that Halloween is almost here and my chance to capture the pumpkins with my camera would again have to wait a whole year.

I could let you all think that these are really giant pumpkins...but that is a child size chair!

I stopped at the counter and bought some lovely looking peaches. The clerk explained to me that a few days ago some people from the county came to take photos. She said that the owners have been told that they owe the county lots of money...something like a $100,000 for a special use permit...Urf. She also told me that the sort of famous person, in San Diego anyway, who owns the property across Willow Road from them wants to close them down. Very sad. I do like seeing horses, but this friendly cheerful place looks lots better than the dirt brown acres of horse pastures. There should be room for both here in Lakeside.