While Putin’s pissoir torpedoed the Defense Bill and flitted off to Deface-a-Lake with his
plasticene dreamwife compliments of the KGB we contentedly settled for a moody Christmas
Eve day on the straits and Christmas Eve zoom meet with the familial after pizza and paella from Gaby accompanied by a gratifyingly inebriatory bottle of Cabernet well above
our paygrade [familial screen shot courtesy of Brenda Moore, upper right, second from right].
The Day itself brought the same merrily sombre weather with an afternoon
visit from Bryan, who stayed for stuffed squash after a walk to the bottom of Second to witness
the ebb tide; all that was swell and
Saturday brought sun, a chill sun
down the alleys of Benicia. Our Little Town.
The year’s winding down, folks…not that year’s end will make much difference.
Three days to go
oh [uh-oh – the coppers!]
from here.
here…
Good luck!
Happy Hopeful 2021…
*A Christmas classic from Terry Allen; a person could, if so inclined, squeeze “Martinez” into the slot for “Panama” and have a lot of fun with it.
Lovely photos- especially the evocative ones of moody Christmas. Agreed, good to see the end of 2020, but not a lot of optimism for 2021. My money is on 2022 and beyond, assuming the world lasts that long….
Yes I Possibly Endured Some
(yipes!)
Uhmmm, I guess it is possible that Putin torpedoed the Defense Bill, but, even with that, I wish it hadn’t passed. Or, more accurately, I wish we weren’t spending 740mil on killing people – almost -all over the world (and I suspect you feel that way, too).
I didn’t mean to imply that Putin torpedoed the bill but that his ‘pissoir’, aka DJT, did…and not for humanitarian reasons [well at least not because all those humans will be murdered because of it] but rather because he found the renaming of military bases offensive…to his offensive Confederate base.
I’ve been to Benicia and when I have been there it does not look as lovely as it did in these images. I guess you have to live there to catch it just right. I too am not sorry to see 2020 end, but have no illusions about a turn around anytime soon. Looking forward to some professionalism in D.C….but hope 2021 is a better year if not wildly HAPPY.