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Back home from my cemetery walk and meeting - puttering around the house again today. Here's some lensbaby pictures from the cemetery - lots of gingko leaves and the usual stuff: ( Read more... )

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The next stop we made was to cousin Donna's house in Hollister. She grows cactus and loves cactus (as does Kathy) so they took us over to see this house that has a huge cactus garden in it's front yard. Very pretty and lots of cactus were in bloom - kind of scary though - I would hate to bump into anything there:

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After leaving Dennis and Sharon's house in Napa Valley, Aunt Rene drove us to cousin Donna's house down below San Francisco. We stopped at the best roadside produce market, run by an old Italian man. I loved his accent and the way the sun filtered down through those colored awnings. I got the most delicious apricot whole wheat bars there:


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Here are a few more pictures of highlights of our trip to California. Dennis and Sharon took us to an authentic re-creation of an medieval Italian castle that was also a winery - it was called something that translated to "Castle of Love". The tour guide kept testing us to see if we remembered the Italian name and I put up a block in my head to ( Read more... )