Life moves forward

Last week is over. Every one performed their roles properly and life reached its expected and inevitable conclusion. Leslie and I want to thank you on behalf of the whole family for your tremendous support. Your calls and letters mean so much to all of us.

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I have been playing a lot of guitar, my long neglected instrument.

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The Citrus Label Show looks fantastic, my last show with the library. Try to see it, some of the work is simply gorgeous. This is a label from my personal collection that is not in the show.

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My saturday morning photographer's coffee klatch is starting its own blog, Redneck Shutters.

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We stopped at Cucina Urbana yet again, on one of the trips back from Coronado. Amazing meal once again, won't go into it at length but did have this beautiful plate of a full marrow bone with garlic crostini. Heaven. Pardon the blur, cell phone.

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This is a picture looking up at the trunk of my sequoia sempervirens, or redwood tree. Redwoods belong to the tallest tree species in the world, Sequoioideae, a subfamily of Cupressaceae, or Cypress. I have two redwoods, planted by Jasper Lalli in 1970 and they are now very, very big. This one is well over 80 feet tall. The girth is ginormous.

I have never watered them, my elevation of 525' is right over a water table and the Santa Margarita River aquifer and their long roots allow a free, permanent drink.

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We knew the Fukushima radiation disaster was bad, but did we know it was this bad? Shawn sends me this disturbing article from Al Jazeera. What happened to the good old days when the CEO of the Tokyo Electric and Power Company would kneel down in front of the country and disembowel himself in shame for his perfidy? Kids today just ain't got no respect.