Took this picture on Christmas Day 2022. Self had driven to Mendocino to de-stress. Mostly, she just walks around the Village, gets take-out from Patterson’s, and browses in Gallery Bookshop. The Corner Bakery makes the best tamales! You have to get there early: they might sell out.
Posting for Travel with Intent’s One Word Sunday.
The sign said “Open” but the bakery was closed in honor of Christmas. Whose bikes were those, then?
From Ceehttps://ceenphotography.com/2023/02/16/cbwc-arches-domes-half-circles-creative-cropping/:
Guest Room, Mendocino Hotel
Festival of Lights, Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden
For the second year in a row, self spent Christmas in Mendocino. She loves being in the tiny, picturesque village clinging to the headlands off US-1. Her favorite doors/haunts (L to R): Mendocino Chocolate Company on Main (the main store is in Fort Bragg); Corners of the Mouth organic grocery (in a re-purposed church, on Ukiah); a vintage store in downtown Fort Bragg; and the Garden Bakery, in an alley next to the Great Put-On clothing boutique on Albion.
Posting for No Facilities’ Thursday Doors.
Thanks to Jez Braithwaite for hosting the Fan of . . . challenge.
Self loves sending out Christmas cards. This holiday season was a little hectic. Alas, she didn’t send out as many as she normally does. But she still loves getting them in the mail. She pastes them on a wall in her living room. Sometimes she even keeps them up all year.
Today the boxed sets of Christmas cards were 50% off at Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino. This beautiful set (Art by Trevor Waugh) is printed in England and says, “Wishing you all the joys of the season.” She can’t wait to send them out next Christmas!
Today, everything is closed (except for Patterson’s, the bar on Lansing, which is pretty lively!). Self took a walk around the village. In front of the McCallum house, there were these pretty flowers. Perfect for Cee’s Flower of the Day!
Launching into The Daevabad Trilogy with Book 2, The Kingdom of Copper (All the copies of Book 1 were checked out of the local library and self was impatient to get started). It is a fast read — she’s already on p. 35, and that’s considering she went for a walk around the village, and went for a drive to Fort Bragg. Already, she has encountered ifrits and djinns, minarets and mosques, and layer upon layer of palace intrigues. There’s an evil ruler, and an arranged marriage, and two contentious (but handsome) sons, and a city of sentient statues and pavements, and of course a bustling market:
Nahri looked around, dazzled. A glassworker was turning hot sand into a speckled bottle with her fiery hands while across the lane a wooden loom worked by itself, bright woolen threads wrapping and twisting to pattern a half-completed prayer mat. From a stall packed with flowers came a rich aroma, a perfumer sprinkling rosewater and musk over a glittering tray of molten ambergris. Next door, a pair of hunting cheetahs in jeweled collars lounged on elevated cushions, sharing a storefront with squawking firebirds.
— The Kingdom of Copper, p. 35
So now she will spend the rest of the day happy as a clam, reading.
Merry Christmas, all!
Stay tuned.
Friends in New York City have been telling self about the sudden drop in temperature.
All clear here, on the northern California coast! Feeling lucky.
Posting for Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky challenge.
Thanks to Journeys with Jonbo for hosting the Cellpic Sunday challenge.
A few days ago, self met a friend for lunch at Mademoiselle Colette, a local patisserie. They offer salads and soup of the day, plus croissants and brioches. Not to mention the most delicious cakes!
Love the little Christmas trees. She just had to take a picture.
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