NAPA VALLEY

A Neil Young song comes to mind when looking at this photo.

Two of my favorite people, even though both yell at me from time to time.

High above Napa, California

Saw some big critters in the pastures

Mount Tamalpais in the far  background

Downtown Napa 

MUSIC 101

You can't teach an old dog new tricks...but...what if the teacher is older than the old dog?  Photo: Patty C. Wilson

TOMALES BAY / MARSHALL PETALUMA .

We began our 30 minute trek from the motorhome in Novato (40 minutes North of San Francisco) to Anne's spread (sheep farm/bird sanctuary/creamer farm/cow pasture)to meet up with Bud and Cas.
5 minutes into the drive the landscape went from the hustle of HWY 101 to this.

 ...  photos are 100% organic, photoshop free.. no preservatives.

ANNE'S

Patty and Anne

Oysters and bird watching

Back to Anne's for a stroll around the property and bird watching. What a great day!

home sweet home by 9 pm

SAN FRANCISCO

2701 BROADWAY sits at one of the highest elevations in PACIFIC HEIGHTS and, therefore, enjoys a top-notch vantage point, with perfectly framed views of THE PALACE OF FINE ARTS AND THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, and the bay from seemingly every room. The house was BUILT BACK IN 1910 by architect James Miller and underwent a modern renovation by Moller Willrich Architecture in 2002.

One would expect old school European art in a 30 million dollar mansion built in 1910 .. which was probably the case along with a CHAUFFEUR named JAMES.
Finding 3 paintings of Jerry Garcia of the band " THE GREATFUL DEAD " hanging on the walls say that .....indeed, " THE TIMES..THEY ARE aCHANGE'IN.

SALINAS VALLEY, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

JOHN STEINBECK wrote "Travels with Charlie" here. The first novel I read when I was 17 years old and the inspiration for our blog "Travels with Nugget and Rico."
Also "The Grapes of Wrath" which was made into a popular movie starring Henry Fonda.
The food on your dinner plate, in part, comes from California's Central Valley.

PHOTO: Patty C. Wilson, Sausalito, CA. 2009

Tomorrow Patty and I hook up with old friends Bud and Cas Hedrick and Anne Haley. We go back 48 years beginning friendships seeded in our years in Hawaii.
...and once again I show Bud what a lousy "wanna be" guitar player sounds like.

SANTA BARBARA AND VENTURA

VENTURA HARBOUR

My old surf buddies at Emma Wood.
Glenn above and Butch below.
Nice reunion.

A painting of Patty West hanging in her husband's (David West)  recording studio,
STATE STREET, SANTA BARBRA.

DAVID HARD AT WORK...OR HARDLY WORKING.

MIXING AND RECORDING

VENTURA LAST WEEKEND