future tripping and travel

 Sister Jane has visited the Blogmaid and me and my crazy family three times and now we are considering a trip back to Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the early Fall. It was the Blogmaid's idea and I am starting to plan and get excited. I have more biological family back there. Yesterday I took an online tour of Sharpsburg, and it is filled with all sorts of Civil War history that I have conveniently forgotten over the decades. In case you forgot (and how could you?) I was born in Towson, Maryland, and transported as an infant by train to my new family in Pasadena, California where I grew up. All families = complicated. Right?

more orange October

 It's in our DNA. The top photo is Sister Jane's dining room table, then mine and then my kitchen with little orange lights. We can't help ourselves. 

a favorite walk and (of course) a latte

 I like to celebrate having half sisters this late in life and yesterday I stopped at a favorite coffee shop during my long walk on Valencia Street. You can barely see the beautiful grey Victorian across the street in the top photo, but it is a pleasure to see from my table.