15 June 2004 A blossoming prickly pear on Channing in West Berkeley. Prickly pear fruit is called tuna and can be made into jam or sorbet.
15 June 2004 A blossoming cactus on Channing in West Berkeley
15 June 2004 Tree-lined streets of Berkeley
15 June 2004 The inside of a BART car
15 June 2004 Linda sits in the Other Minds office, taking a break from preparing lists of past donors for board members (such as myself) to call up and ask for money
15 June 2004 Jim Newman, past president of the Other Minds board of directors, at the end of an evening of calling past donors.
15 June 2004 Maybe I'll remember to go to this protest...
15 June 2004 Twilight at Lake Merrit. The lake was artificially created, but still is nice.
15 June 2004 A gondelier in the twilight at Lake Merrit
16 June 2004 Horses at Lake Merrit. All sorts of weird sightings there.
16 June 2004 Jean's foot is all bruised
16 June 2004 Jean's leg is also bruised. Jean fell a couple of weeks ago.
17 June 2004 the Oakland City Center
17 June 2004 Oaland City Center Bart
17 June 2004 Behold the mighty Ragini! Electric drone box! Digital Tamboura! Purchased by guests of Ellen's
17 June 2004 Note the tone knob label on the ragini
17 June 2004 Ellen on her birthday. Look what came in the mail!
17 June 2004 Cola on the DNA sculpture and Lawrence Berkeley Hall of Science
17 June 2004 These good times must be genetic...?
17 June 2004 Foggy view of the bay from the Berkeley Hills
17 June 2004 Foggy view of the San Francisco Bay from the Berkeley Hills. You can't even see Marin.
17 June 2004 Foggy Bay View
18 June 2004 "Your Natural Ingredient Black Muslim Bakery" the best food in the Oakland Airport. Good enough that I look forward to flying... but not for funerals
18 June 2004 A Martini in honor of Catherine. It was what she drank. She wanted there to be something "stronger than punch" at her funeral, but her wishes were not met in that regard.
18 June 2004 Catherine used have martinis and have very deep, intense conversations about god. I drank one and just felt drunk.
18 June 2004 Brother Bob at the bar in LA where I was drinking a martini
20 June 2004 Sophie in the lobby of the chocolate factory
20 June 2004 Sophie outside the chocolate factory, fleeing from overwhelming choclaty smell
20 June 2004
20 June 2004 I came home one day to find still life with olive oil on my counter