To the Mendocino Headlands, Day After Christmas 2022, 9:30 a.m.
Posting for Ragtag Daily
Tag: Mendocino
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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!
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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!
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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. 35So now she will spend the rest of the day happy as a clam, reading.
Merry Christmas, all!
Stay tuned.
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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.
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Memories! Self spent last Christmas in Mendocino Hotel. What a special time. There was weather — storms and the like. It rained on Christmas Eve, but there were carolers, and the bookshop pictured here (only a few steps from the hotel) is one of her favorite bookshops in the entire world.
Posting for Monday Windows.
Gallery Bookshop, Main Street cor. Kasten, Mendocino Village, California -
Today, April 22, EARTH DAY, the citysonnet prompt is a color. And the color for today is PASTEL YELLOW.
Some daffodils (in Filoli Gardens in Woodside and self’s side yard), a mural in downtown Redwood City, and the exterior of the Mendocino Hotel:
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For this Sunday’s One Word Challenge — Diagonal — self is sharing a picture taken last January, in Mendocino. The day was waning. She was watching the sea from the headlands. There is something so calming about this view.
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Guest-hosting this week, Sofia from Photographias. Read her take on taking pictures in low light, her gallery is gorgeous:
- I’m still quite proud of my first real low-light photo. It was taken inside Lisbon’s Cathedral, a 12th Century building in a Romanesque style, that is dark and refreshingly cool in a summer’s day. This feels like an intimate portrait of a group of friends. I could have reduced the shadows even further and get more detail, but I think I would be losing more than adding to the shot.
Here are self’s low-light shots, taken December/January in Mendocino on the northern California coast: That second picture is of Mary-Ellen Campbell’s kayak, which is strapped to the top of her car. We were going out to dinner. She flew with it to Mexico last week.
The large photo is of one of self’s favorite bookshops in the entire world: Gallery Bookshop, on Main Street. The other is a picture of Out of this World, corner of Main and Kasten, which sells telescopes, binoculars, cameras and science toys.
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