The light drizzle, the first rain in a month, made Taylor Mountain look like a faraway place. I loved how this fallen tree outlined the grazing cows.
This enormous oak tree dwarfed the hiker on the path:
Jill took this photo of me. I’m wearing the embroidered babushka that Peggy gave me because the fabric does a good job of holding my rain hood in place.
Yet another drizzly Friday April 5 did not stop 16 members of the “Finding Female Friends over 50” MeetUp group to meet near Spinster Sisters restaurant for the First Friday ArtWalk at South of A Street galleries. The rain washed out the expected live music and the food trucks, but we met artists Lorna and Linda and Carole Watanabe who gave me a copy of her book! Great fun!
Red, White, Blue and Grey. Plus Isaac
Grandmother Oak
From the left: Phyllis, John, Wendy, Becky, Bob Martin, Ellie. Small group because of the 1300′ elevation gain.
We reached it through the Mt. Hood trail head up long windy Los Alamos road, climbed some fences for a shortcut through some private property that separated the two parks.
Free concert by USAF Band of the Golden West from Travis AF base to mark the reopening of the Wells Fargo Center in Santa Rosa. The place was packed!
Enjoyed a great oyster barbeque by Jill Butler and her husband Jim Wilson as a thank you to the WIMP team that created a web page for Sonoma County Forest Conservation Working Group. Teammates Jake Spurlock and Ben Grace brought their families and I made friends with Jake’s three-and-a-half year old Hailey (center). Her brother Rushton is in the green shirt (green is his favorite color) and Ben’s son James is in red. I put them in the garden cart and dragged it over the gophers holes to give them a bumpy ride. So much fun!
It was a beautiful Sunday and the lupine spread like a blue carpet on the verdant Foothill Regional Park. Even Howard enjoyed it!
Cabbages like the cold winter sun
Puerto Rico 1951. We are both missing a front tooth.