Cold & Cloudy 2-18

Time is sliding by again.  Valentines Day was lovely in spite of the cloudy cold weather. Pilates, red roses and a lovely dinner in Auburn.  


Yesterday we drove to Rodeo for the memorial of an old friend and a volunteer fireman for 30 years where Larry used to work.  We left a little early because you never know if there will be an accident or something to slow ya down.  The fruit trees are blooming and the orchards were just getting started, it was a beautiful drive.  The fire department gave a Bob a traditional firemen's send off and I thought I might get through this service easily as I didn't have an emotional attachment to the family.  HA.  They had a bagpiper....ah, dang it.  As he inflated the bag I thought it is just a song, just a beautiful song...well, F.  About five notes into Amazing Grace the emotions started welling up and as I didn't want to start blubbering like a baby I just sat there turning red and breaking out in hives and trying to breathe through it.  I guess it will just always get me.


It was wonderful to see so many old friends that we hadn't seen in thirty or more years...some were more recent but still the time could be counted in decades.  We drove through the old home town and the "old" road to Crockett for the luncheon afterwards past our high school.  Lots of memories there for us high school sweethearts.  It is nice to see that Crockett is looking a little shinier.  C&H is still chugging along and it is all overlooked by the big newer span of the Carquinez Bridge.  It was a sad occasion and so many of the people we knew we must know but THEY had gotten older and it took someone telling us who they were before we recognized them.  So enough about all that.  The drive home took an extra hour with the holiday traffic heading up to the mountains...

One of the first flowers on our plum tree today.

Today was pilates again with yoga thrown in, Larry hiked and then we just did whatever we do for the rest of the day.  I would have liked to work in the yard but it was just too cold.  Our fruit trees are just starting to open their flowers and the daffodils are starting to bloom by the house.

New shoots on the white clematis vine.

These are awaiting better weather so I can plant them.
I don't know why this looks so blurry here.

Larry and his loquat tree, we have to get
fencing to protect it from the deer
and then we'll get it planted.