Linda's Patio

To color or not to color. Done with Dr. Martin watercolors which fade. It's nice to visit friends that love to decorate so I can sketch it.

Randy's Place

Randy's place in the hills above Santa Rosa, Sonoma County. Off and on again music promoter, past life as a guru in India, wheeled and dealed across Europe.

Lots of stories about people, places, music, artists, the 60's. Sonoma's full of people and stories.

His dining table is a telephone cable spool, like the ones people had when free was everywhere, free love, free clinic, freedom from a lot of things. But it was a dream. Last I heard, Randy was living quietly with his horse, his sweat teepee at the top of the hill, taking care of his garden, keeping up with land maintenance.

Where the flower children settled

This is Grace's den. She raised a large family by shopping garage sales.

Rohnert Park is a bedroom community started in the 60's, about an hour north of San Francisco. The hippies flowed up from the city for the lush countryside, making music in San Rafael, performing at the Mystic in Petaluma, The Inn at the Beginning in Cotati, settling everywhere, east to Davis, Sacramento, into the foothills. The music, tie die t-shirts, long gypsy skirts are still there. Grace was never a hippie herself but bits and pieces of their crafts came into her homr, like the macrame owl.

During the wet winters we would all think about the flowers we wanted to plant in spring.