A Quick Trip to Mt Palomar

When growing up (Oh, wait - I've never done that.) I was always interested in astronomy - I was a real geek. At that time, the largest telescope in the world was the 200 inch Hale telescope at the Mt. Palomar observatory, and books were full of the universe as seen through its eye.

The weather was very nice yesterday so we took a drive up there to check it out. But what you see to the right is a stock photo since the wimpy Cal Tech astonomers had the facility closed because of a measly few feet of snow.

They even had the lady at the post office fooled. She told us the buildings were closed because of the weather, but we should be able to do some sightseeing around the grounds.

The road through the snow-covered wilderness was open all the way up, but the entrance to the parking lot  was closed off. We couldn't even walk around and take pictures of the domes and other buildings because the hiking trails were blocked.





So we headed back the 50 miles to our park in Menifee, and managed to catch just a sampling of the California-4 o'clock Friday-rush-hour traffic. But the scene that greeted us as we left the grocery store parking lot reminded us why we really love this area.