A gorgeous day

A perfect fall day, perhaps the last of the year; tomorrow clouds are predicted, and rain in the evening and all day Monday. I am not looking forward to that Monday morning commute in the rain. I might even stay at a motel in Redwood City Sunday night just to avoid it.

Today we went to the hamlet of Princeton, Ca. -- a small housing development, a few restaurants, a boat ramp, and a pleasant little beach behind a harbor jetty, without even a post office -- where some friends put out to sea in kayaks to scatter the ashes of another kayaker friend. A gorgeous day for it, as I say. Cris and I sat by the water on a picnic bench with the aged mother of one kayaker -- the one whose partner had died -- as we waited for the kayakers to return. Just that, a couple of hours of sitting by a bay in the warm sunshine chatting quietly with people.