We’ve been having lots of rain this week, much needed, and the potholes on our street are now little muddy pools. I write to the Mendocino County Department of Transportation a couple times a year and send pictures of our street that badly needs to be paved anew, but in fifteen years we have only managed to get someone to come out once and do a little patching that lasted but a few months. Oh well. I guess they’re using our property taxes for other things.
This is the blowhole on the headlands just to the west of Portuguese Beach. The big storm swells rolling into that cave have been making some spectacular water explosions. Endlessly fun to watch.
Marcia cooked a feast for her birthday, which conveniently falls on Valentine’s Day so I rarely forget her birthday. Phew. She made baked beets and carrots to go with a scrumptious chicken tagine. I helped chop things and stir things and eat things.
I take lots of pictures of dogs because dogs abound in Mendocino. One sunny hour between rain storms recently a beautiful cat who hangs out at a yoga studio in the village posed for me, and later that day a cat came to flirt with me on my walk in the neighborhood.
Speaking of dogs, our friends Doug and Roxana who live in Withee, Wisconsin gave a copy of my new book The Dog Who Wanted A Person to the town library and there we are. If you haven’t read the book yet or listened to the audio book you’re missing some really big fun. Trust me. By the way, breaking news: the audio edition is now available from Apple for just 5 bucks! (as well as being available from Audible.)
And speaking of great books, I’m in the middle of narrating the audio version of my book Oasis Tales of the Conjuror and other stories at Peter Temple’s studio. What an intriguing collection of stories! I’ll let you know when the audio version comes out.
This morning it hailed like mad for the third day in a row, and shortly after the hail stopped, the sun came out.
On my way down from the post office to see the raucous ocean, I came upon this cool-looking truck and thought, “The person who created this vehicle has thought long and hard about what you need to go truck adventuring.”
Moments later I stood on the cliff overlooking Mendocino Bay and snapped some pictures that might have been painted by Maxfield Parrish. What an amazing world this is.
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Nothing Anybody Says from Todd’s album Dream of You featuring Gwyneth Moreland singing so beautifully.