The First of Many Breathtaking Spots

Middletown, California- The Abbey
Visiting Davis is sitting on top of the Mayacama Mountain Range, looking out at the Berrysea Ridge- just a high mountainside aerie up a dirt road hill that beats any crazy driveway I've lived on. His home has so many facets- rooms, doors, fabulous artwork everywhere with the perfect amount of whimsy.

Ollie and Ella, his two dogs, are as lucky as two dogs can be with room to roam, a bull in the woods to bark at, and hikes right out the back door. Which is what we did today- 6 miles to Tom Dye's Peak and Sacre's Brow

through the shaded pine, Douglas fir and manzanita forest. Several fabulous viewing sites, one of which is seen above.

A highlight has been 'waiting for the moon' in the past two nights. Waiting and watching and laughing as the sky darkened and the horizon started to glow and this tiny flash of luna began to appear. In all my years, I have never sat and patiently waited for the moon to rise. It is a spectacular event- each night as if I had never seen it before- just marveling at this yellow-white orb rising to grace the sky. Where have I been?