Yesterday we had the kind of day that was very interesting to us, but perhaps not as interesting in the telling. You can decide. We started out at La Note, a French restaurant on Shattuck Ave in Downtown Berkeley. They have a lovely garden out back which was a wonderful place to enjoy breakfast in the continuing perfect weather.
We had a Zipcar so we were able to drive around various neighborhoods that were favorites of mine when I lived here. We visited Rockridge and Elmwood and took a drive up in the hills to the Lawrence Hall of Science to admire the spectacular view of the Bay and then along the top of the hills on Grizzly Peak Blvd. with a stop at the Rose Garden on the way down.
Next we hit a farmer's market in the Gourmet Ghetto section where they had the most beautiful bags of salad greens with edible flowers, gorgeous produce, live jazz, and a brilliant bouquet of flowers to bring to that evening's dinner. I also had a 20 minute Tui Na session for a little energy top up. It was interesting to lie there with my eyes closed and detect all the aromas wafting by on the breeze (hmm cheese, oh that's the cinnamon bread, there goes some basil...)
After a rest at the hotel, we went off for dinner with our old College friends Denise Brergez and Frank Farris and Denise's partner Caleb at the fabulous house that Caleb designed. After a gourmet vegetarian dinner thoughtfully prepared by Caleb to avoid all the foods on my quirky forbidden list, we looked at Frank's wallpaper designs that are born out of mathematical formulas (don't ask us to explain it, but they're beautiful - more info and a look at the designs can be found here: https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/viz/exhibitions/white_spaces/seeing_symmetry
After dropping off the Zipcar, we took our new favorite mode of transport -Uber-back to the hotel to get a good night's sleep before starting the trek to Arcata.