Super Fun Weekend: Bodega Bay and Meeting an Old Friend

We spent the mid morning and afternoon at Bodega Bay, after a brief stop in Sebastopol at the bookstore, art gallery, art supply store. I always find things I can use in my artistry there. Then to the beach after picking up the requisite clam chowder and french bread to eat at the headlands overlooking the ocean. Summer flowers were in great abundance. So many colors and varieties.

We always end the day with an ice cream cone...never mind it was only an hour before we were meeting a friend for dinner.

These fire flowers were in Valley Ford across the street from The Oyster House!

Michele met us there. Here she is sweet thing, holding the bag I made and she bought last November from my ETSY store! How sweet was that!

Michele and I go back to the 1970's when we met in a philosophy class at the community college. I also took drama there one semester! We reminisced the years our daughters were babies together; talked about their marriages in recent years; shared notes about our grandchildren!

It was really sweet to see her after all this time. I think we last got together about 20 yrs ago. Too long between visits, but nice to know our friendship lives on.

Michele is the author of almost 20 published books and articles on food.

You can read more about her and her work here. ************

At home on Sunday I worked some more on my sunflower quilt.

Am at the stage where I am adding "bling!"

I have a second project lined up mostly in my

mind right now but will start to materialize it soon. *****

Hope you all had a funfilled weekend,

or

at least a relaxing one!