Yesterday we scooped up my brother Jim in Berkeley and took a drive to Alameda where his partner, Louise has a beautiful home on a lagoon. She served us a beautiful lunch, including homemade crab cakes accompanied by roasted tomatoes- to die for (kicking myself that I forgot photos till they were eaten). We spent a lovely afternoon on the deck looking out at the water and then had dinner at a local Italian restaurant - Trabocco. Again forgot photos of the fabulous food, but we did get the most important ones (Jim was more on task there than I):
