Room with a View

Birthday sunset from the Claremont.

The morning after.

I took a few days off for Dara's birthday, and we spent them in Berkeley mostly. We had lunch at Chez Panisse, dinner with Rob, and spent the night at the Claremont overlooking Golden Gate and San Francisco. The weather was gorgeous and warm. It wasn't until we got back that we read about the wildfires down south. We don't get those Santa Ana winds up here, and we also had several inches of rainfall a few weeks back. (The Claremont Hotel just missed being burnt to the ground during the Oakland hills fire in 91.) The grass is starting to grow here now and is turning the golden hills light green. Time to shift irises around in the garden and start to fret about mowing again. Hmm, must be time to start thinking about snowboarding.