Happy Birthday America...

and many happy returns!

July 4th, 2009

Petaluma is the funnest town around. One of the most fun things about Petaluma is the unexpected live entertainment you are likely to find. Yesterday was like most any Sunday in Petaluma unless you were fortunate to be in the little park next to the Petaluma Yacht Club where on Saturday and Sunday, ...

Part Two: Fun with fruit

Part One: Eat, sleep, drink and be merry; we're not the ones who will have to clean up this mess.

Once again, today I struck up a conversation with a young smoker.

I was sitting outside at the Apple Box waiting for a rain shower that never came. A young man, his name is Joshua, lit up a cigarette as he walked across the deck and sat down on the sidewalk near the river bank to enjoy his ...

None of the plants pictured here should have sprouted. Yet they did and seem to be thriving; thistle and mustard plants growing between chunks of rock along the railroad tracks on Lakeville Street and a dandelion growing in the crack between wood and a rock wall.

Jan's comment on the photos ...

The good.

On Saturday, May 2nd the 14th annual Petaluma River Cleanup took place. On a rainy Saturday morning, approximately 100 people met at the Petaluma Marina parking lot. After a small breakfast, they walked, paddled and drove to places along the Petaluma River and hauled trash and recyclables ...

I am an unabashed Petaluma promoter. There is so much to do in this town and so many activities and events to attend that it seens as if something fun happens every week. The latest event was Petaluma's salute to American Graffiti. For a day a large section of the downtown turned into an open-air ...

There is a world wide transportation system that works all day, every day moving plant seeds quietly and efficiently, without burning fuel and that goes largely unnoticed by most of us. The majority of the work is done by the wind but people and animals also help move seeds from one place to another.

And ...

When people photograph roses, they usually photograph the flower we call a rose. As I discovered today, the flower isn't the only photogenic part of the rose.

From the beginning, when the tightly wound buds first appear
To the end, when the petals have fallen and the rose hips begin ...