More Memorial Day --

From one of the oldest sections of Greenwood Memorial Park -- and changed to B&W....

Memorial Day Extras

The boys' feet at my grandparents' grave...



My great-great grandparents' grave in Elk's Rest.



Statue markers in cemetery...



Another...



The elk statue at Elk's Rest in Greenwood cemetery

Around the house....

Dash likes to play fetch with the soccer ball. Never mind that it's very nearly his size....



I also photographed some blooms from our locust trees. I had never noticed that they bloomed at all; this photo blog is really helping me to notice what I don't usually see....

Major's Diner

We enjoyed lunch at Major's Diner today -- we were really there for a Creative Arts Council board meeting, and the boys came along and did their schoolwork at a table nearby, munching on french fries while working.

Major's is a tourist stop mostly, but some locals do hang out there, just for lack of another place. With only three restaurants in town, and one of them being a hamburger joint with picnic seating only, the choice is limited. Definitely an aspect of living in a town of 1200 people....

Around the house today...

My only yellow iris....



An old Mother's Day hanging; J made this in school two years ago, and it hangs in my kitchen.

More San Diego Landmarks....

E and I attended the San Diego Homeschool Expo downtown today. After we finished selecting school books for next year, we drove three blocks from the Expo at Golden Hall and passed by the building in which I used to work. Back then, the entire building was owned by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Publishers, Inc., and I worked for HBJ in the bookstore in the basement right after graduation from college and again after grad school. Just as I was leaving the bookstore to start teaching at Point Loma, we found out that the bookstore was being closed and that the publishing company was moving to a nearby skyscraper. This may not be a tall building in the San Diego skyline, but it's a personal favorite of mine, both for the architecture, the paint job (looks like a birthday cake!), and for several pleasant years spent in a bookstore with 50,000 titles, the second-largest bookstore in San Diego at the time (before B&N and Borders, etc.).




First Presbyterian Church, built in 1898, is also a downtown landmark. Vera, Johanna, and I attended church here while we were neighbors, and we used to sneak in (late) and sit right in front of the GORGEOUS stained glass windows in the second shot. Best of all, Vera was married here, with Johanna and I as attendants and E as flower girl. It was extremely appropriate to take part in an 1890's style wedding in an 1890's church! Remind Vera to post a photo of her wedding dress; it's truly a work of ART.

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