With the encouragement of friends and help from some people on TaskRabbit, I’m getting the backyard to be more functional. I’m still tossing around ideas and not complete with where I want it to be, but to show the progress and some of the ideas I am working on, I thought I’d document the progress here. I’m not completely happy with the grass “rugs,” but they were inexpensive and may function for a while to increase the usefulness of the backyard. I have a potting bench I have to put together and I’m going to get my gazebo reinforced and a hot tub cover valet installed.
I don’t know what was in the air, but I have pictures of BOTH of them coincidentally sticking their tongues out at me! They were nervous (Cappy was actually shaking) but I couldn’t resist putting them in the wagon I got for the leaves.
All of these ingredients are healthy and the combo was guilt-free heaven. The next time I have a family event I want to make something like this in large numbers and I’ll take a picture.
My daughter, who lives in Berkeley, and I were invited by my friend, a son of the late philanthropists, to see this exhibit and attend this event. We heard from two biographers of Vivian Maier who know about this story of her posthumous fame, mostly through the internet. She died in 2009 and only now are we appreciating what a prolific and talented photographer she was, despite what many would consider a rather unremarkable life that she led. This was presented by the Reva and David Logan Gallery of Documentary Photography at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.
