Goodbye Homeland, Bittersweet goodbye. Good bye Buttes outside my childhood bedroom window. Goodbye golden days, harvested fields, amber leaves,  geese that fly by…   Good bye Mom and her kitchen of home made goodness. Chocolate chip cookies, sweet bread…

Mystical Morning Call photo: The call of the morning, Northern California.   Early this morning as the sun was adding gold to the sky my youngest brother Zane called, "The geese are here, the field is white, if you want…

  My stay in Willows is coming to an end, and with that a bittersweetness seeps into the cracks of days gone by, many days gone by, and the days to come. Coming and going has a way of raising…

  As I am visiting family in California, Sacha and French Husband went for a hike along the Luminy coastline between Cassis and Marseille. The first part of the trail is do-able, though if you hike the entirety you are…

Cruising with Christine through the Black Buttes with the top rolled down. Oh Northern California you know how to shine with your good looks and blue skies. Such pleasure seeing those hills green.         After living all…

photo by Laura   Eleven years of blogging is very long time. Thank you for following me, and for every kindness you have shown me. I have been so very fortunate to feel your friendship, to get to know so…