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Month: February 2019

3 weeks back in the U S of A

13th February 2019 / hmcreativelady / 0 Comments
  • Drawing room at the Hinds House
  • Needlework
  • Beautiful stained glass
  • Making tapestry poppies
  • Dinner with the family
  • Drinks at Severino’s
  • Anna and Lee
  • Rio del Mar
  • Rio del Mar
  • Wonderful stormy sky
  • The old jetty
  • Clouds and a palm tree
  • Driftwood from the storm
  • Off we go
  • All together
  • Chasing the sunset over the arctic tundra
  • My home for a week is the hinds House in downtown santa Cruz, built in 1888 by a Brit!
  • Colourful magnolia
  • Victorian Painted lady
  • At Opera San Jose
  • Opera San Jose with Sarah
  • Anna shows Lee a family album
  • My old house
  • Rachela dn Anna visit me at the Hinds House
  • The imposing entrance hall
  • Amazing mahogany fireplace
  • Bedroom lamp
  • San Lorenzo River is high
  • My daily walk when I lived here
  • Wonderful sky
  • Eek! Going to visit my storage unit
  • Reunion drinks after band rehearsal
  • Sorting out three crates of music
  • Tiles on the fireplace at the Hinds House
  • Lovely colors
  • Hinds House
  • Imposing Hinds house, built by A J Hinds. He was born in Chester, England and crossed overland in 1850 to Santa Cruz as a 6 year old boy. During the trip his mother died at the Humbolt Sink.
  • Making myself at home at Anna and Lee’s
  • Anna and Lee’s garden in Oakland
  • Downtown Oakland
  • Lunch with Patti in Lafayette
  • Michael making brunch
  • Racheland Michael at Lake Merrit
  • New catholic cathedral
  • Memory lane
  • Astroll around Lake Merrit
  • Sunset on top of Michael ‘s apartment
  • Oakland sunset
  • Michael at work
  • The title of my trip!
  • Lafayette reservoir
  • Mum and daughter pic
  • Our former house on Read Drive
  • Many memories of the Lafayette Park Hotel
  • Revisiting the family home in Walnut Creek
  • Chickens now roam where my beautiful garden was
  • Dinner in a lighthouse
  • Quinn’s
  • The old house
  • Sooooo many walks around this reservoir

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