While I was out walking today, I went past the former Camera 12 cinema in downtown San Jose. It has been closed since September 2016 and was to be redeveloped. The plans have apparently stalled but someone somewhere is trying to make the best of it. The last […]
From time to time I see a message that someone has written and I wonder who they are. Why did they write it? Who did they think would read it? Is it a message for the moment or for posterity? Here are some of those messages: […]
On a car journey on Interstate 80 in California over the holiday, some family members and I saw something unusual on the horizon on our right-hand side. We were all wondering what we were looking at. Some of us thought it was snow on mountains behind foothills; others […]
Every year the Monterey State Historic Park Association arranges for an evening of access to several adobe buildings in the city. Some of them are not normally open to the public, so it was quite a treat to be able to visit them with my niece last Friday. […]
This weekend I took an Amtrak train from San Jose to Salinas and enjoyed a very comfortable journey. When I arrived at San Jose Diridon station I had time to wait and take in the lovely architectural details. It was built in the Italian Renaissance Revival style and […]
Here are some new and some new-to-me murals seen this week on South 1st Street in San Jose. I always appreciate the colorful creativity of the artists’ work and am often surprised by the imagery. When I was here last winter the site at 791 South 1st Street […]
There is a song by Jerome Kern and B.G. DeSilva that admonishes us to always look for the silver lining. Quite by chance today, I found it. I also found Santa Claus on an apartment balcony. But nothing surprised me more than finding out that Captain America lives […]
I am a snowbird who travels south for the winter. When I get there I have a bird of paradise plant on my patio.
