4/30/2012

St. Brendan's Church, from which we sent Will to his final rest.

4/29/2012

When you can't sleep at night, this is what happens.  I was awake until nearly 5 a.m.

4/28/2012

My irises have started blooming

4/27/2012

A surprise gift.

4/26/2012

Our good friend Jim Hutchinson lost his battle with bladder cancer this morning

4/25/2012

I found a lovely little tea shop right near the book store.  I sat on the patio and enjoyed a cup of Earl Gray and read from my Kindle for awhile.

4/24/2012

 

Will Connolly, 1943 - 2012

No, I didn't take this picture, but our friend Will died today and it's important to me to post his photo here.

4/23/2012

Just fine, thank you -- how are you?

4/22/2012

After "Says You" today, we went out to this MARVELOUS Vietnamese crab restaurant.

4/21/2012

The Radio Show "Says You" comes back to San Francisco again, for 3 days of fun.

4/20/2012

I love it when the poppies bloom!

4/19/2012

When did my hands get so old?

4/18/2012

After 3 days away, it is a full time job catching up on shows that were recorded on the DVR while we were gone!

4/17/2012

Today a woman brought this dog into the book store...and by talking about him, I realized he is our little Max (of Patty, Max and Laverne) all grown up!

4/16/2012

Goleta Beach.  "This was more fun when I was 11," Tom said!

4/15/2012

4/14/2012

We went to see Titanic: the Musical on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of that great ship.

4/13/2012

A patch of blue between storms.

4/12/2012

Some nice postcards in the mail.  The top right is for a Swap-Bot exchange; it's from New South Wales in Austraila.  Next to it is "Dorothy's House" in Liberal, Kansas.  This was for another Swap-Bot exchange, for a poem on a post card.  The writer chose Langdon Smith's 1895 poem, "Evolution."  Bottom left is the British museum from my cousin's widower, Fred, who is visiting London at present, and the bottom right is a Postcrossing card from Amish Country.

4/11/2012

This is how most mornings begin--the dogs hoping I'll share some of my toast with them. (All three of them are looking at a piece of toast in my hand.)

4/10/2012

No, I'm not sleeping.  I'm deeply engrossed in reading James Michener's "The Journey."

4/9/2012

What a lovely lunch today, with the grand old man of Sacramento theater, two Davis friends, and a visitor from Ireland.  All at Ciocolat, that fantastic little restaurant in downtown Davis.

4/8/2012

It was a French themed Easter dinner and the table decorations were lovely!

4/7/2012

 This was my afternoon at the Woodland Shakespeare Club, which included a birthday cake for the Bard (apparently described somewhere in his writings), a lunch, a speech on communication, a reading of the Declaration of Independence and a skit featuring the wives of the signers of the document.  An interesting experience, all.

4/6/2012

Sheila's on guard; all's right with the world.

4/5/2012

This isn't the world's greatest picture, but it does represent the major event today--I took my mother to Kaiser for her baseline memory assessment (and then to the pharmacy for a prescription refill).

4/4/2012

Lunch with my mother and her stepdaughter...a first after nearly 40 years.

4/3/2012

It's book store day.  This is the book I read during my four hours working there.

4/2/2012

The faithful dog waits patiently for our return.

4/1/2012

Site of an important "summit meeting" today.