Seeing the Sights in Fort Bragg

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
-Russell Baker

The above quote is for my fellow blogger at Wander to the Wayside. Linda, Russell Baker has won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature so you are in good company.

The Mendocino County coast can be a very foggy place, but recently it appears that perhaps the sunny times are here to stay for a while, which has prompted me to spend more time seeing the local sights, and also meeting some local women.

Yesterday I went into town and walked around investigating little shops (Christmas will be here before you know it), having lunch at a small eatery (ooh, the pastries), and checking out the details of a possible train excursion (too expensive).

I took a lot of photos, which you will see in a slideshow in the right sidebar. I've included the flower photos from my time at the botanical gardens a few days ago, and they take a while to load so you may have to check back later to see them. Today I think I'll investigate the town of Mendocino and the Point Cabrillo Lighthouse.

This weekend my host Marilou will travel to San Francisco for a family gathering and I will stay here and feed the animals (and sleep in a bed, and watch too much TV, and cook that Pillsbury Bake-Off-winning recipe I got from my friend Diane in Seattle).

[Oh, my Skype line is ringing.] That was my oldest brother, Steve, and then our youngest brother, Jay, came online so we added him to the conversation. Do you have Skype? It enables you to video call others who have the service (free download) and a computer camera. Pretty cool. I'll be seeing them in person in mid-September in Flagstaff. Grand Canyon--woohoo!

Yikes, it's already 2 pm! Where does the time go? I'll wrap this up for now. Poem later. Also photos.