{"id":20254,"date":"2015-05-07T00:06:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T07:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20254"},"modified":"2015-05-07T00:06:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T07:06:38","slug":"mothers-day-throughout-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mothers-day-throughout-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Day Throughout California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/momz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos: The Chocolate Queen receives a bouquet at Paradise Chocolate Festival; women explore Daylily fields in Amador County; mother and daughter share smiles; and woman sells pottery at San Dieguito Art Guild Mother&#8217;s Day Studio and Garden\u00a0Tour<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating mom can be as simple and thoughtful as buying a card, a gift, a meal or just saying, &#8220;thanks.&#8221; Last year we did a feature on children who were\u00a0given a ride so they could\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/health\/kids-parents-prison.html\">visit their moms in prison<\/a>. Mothers\u00a0come in all shapes, sizes and interests and for those seeking something special here are a few festivals that have\u00a0&#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day&#8221; written all over them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/stinson-beach-griffin-preserve-mothers-day.html\">Stinson Beach Annual Mother&#8217;s Day Picnic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Calico Ghost Town Mother&#8217;s Day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/yermo-bluegrass-festival.html\">Bluegrass Music Festival\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-chocolate-festivals.html\">Chocolate Festivals<\/a> at San Diego Botanic Garden (Encinitas) and Paradise Chocolate Festival<\/li>\n<li>Amador Flower Farm Mother&#8217;s Day &#8211; picnic under the oaks, free tram ride, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/amador-daylily-days.html\">1,000 varieties of daylilies<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Art Fairs: Sunset Beach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sunset-beach-art-festival.html\">Mother&#8217;s Day Weekend Art Festival<\/a>; Mother&#8217;s Day Artisan Fair in Suisun City; Studio City\u00a0 Mother&#8217;s Day Festival of Arts and Crafts;\u00a0Los Banos\u00a0Mother&#8217;s Day in Pacheco Park Arts and Crafts Show<\/li>\n<li>Boulder Creek &#8211; Big Basin Redwoods State Park The Women of Big Basin\u00a0Mother&#8217;s Day Special Event \u00a0May 10, 2015 at 1 pm.\u00a0 Meet pioneer homemaker Alice Maddock; Josephine McCrackin, the Savior of the Redwoods,\u00a0and Harriet &#8216;Petey&#8217; Weaver, the first female Ranger\u00a0portrayed by Susan Blake during a\u00a0half-mile, 2-hour guided walk. Wheelchair and stroller accessible. Call: (831) 338-8883<\/li>\n<li>San Diego Mother&#8217;s Day Weekend Art, Garden and Studio Tour, offtrackgallery.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: The Chocolate Queen receives a bouquet at Paradise Chocolate Festival; women explore Daylily fields in Amador County; mother and daughter share smiles; and woman sells pottery at San Dieguito Art Guild Mother&#8217;s Day Studio and Garden\u00a0Tour Celebrating mom can be as simple and thoughtful as buying a card, a gift, a meal or just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}