Julian California with Snow!

Julian is a lovely old town in the Cuyamaca Mountains east of San Diego. Julian began as a gold mining town and became a farming community. Julian is famous for apples. Snow in Julian doesn't happen every winter. We had cold rain storms with snow in the mountains two week ends in a row. People flock to the mountains when it snows and both weekends saw hoards of people and their children running around in the snow as seen on the TV news. Today the skys cleared and the people went back to work and the children back to school. We drove up to see the snow. The first photos are at a lookout east of Julian with a view toward the desert.

We decided to drive back through Julian as we had not stopped on our way through...I wanted to take photos there.

Then I saw this pretty little school on the way back towards Santa Ysabel

The Julian Pie Company has a store at Santa Ysabel so we stopped to buy an apple pie. It was still warm from the oven and smelled like cinamon and apples. The Julian Pie Company makes wonderful yummy pies with light flaky crusts. Their apple pie is the total best!

We took a small detour to see the Mission.

 

We decided to drive home through Wild Cat Canyon. We took another detour up to the Country Estates and got a good view of the snowy mountain.

After we got back home from our little day trip we enjoyed a hot cup of coffee and  fresh apple pie.