Jeff and the Connex connection

For some reason having difficulty emailing to you Geoff. But have written to Ali at Bayside and she is thrilled at the idea of you contacting Connex. She probably would be able to talk to them to should you wish a back up as to credibility. After all, we may as well use as much push as we can get.
Cecilia

Congratulations Annetine

Bravo, persistence pays off. And we now can communicate together on the blog.
Geoff's picture comes up really well and am delighted that he has bothered to display it in the blog.
May I encourage you all to continue using the blog.
Tricia will be back at the next meeting.
We will be going on radio later in the year. Should be fun.
Shall keep posting on the blog.
How about if we have a poem for next month we first put it on the blog, which gives others a chance to read it and think about it before the meeting. We seem to run short of time quite a bit.
signing off in 42 degrees and climbing.
Cecilia

a surprising tentative step

at last ... having jumped a huge hurdle .I now wonder what that was all about. !.....will now move ahead....... feels good to be here Thank you Ian and Celia for your patience in getting me through to this point Annetine

A thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains

The picture I wrote about didn't reproduce very well on paper so here it is in JPG format. Click on the image.

Sunset over Bodega Bay

This is beautiful Bodega Bay where the movie The Birds was filmed many years ago. It is not far from Petaluma where we have been staying with Heidi, Ken's former partner who is now like a daughter to us.
We are now on the home stretch. Left Petaluma yesterday for four nights in SanFrancisco then we drive through Big Sur, spend two nights on the cliff tops overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Ragged Point, four nights in Redondo Beach (20 minutes from downtown LA)then home, where hopefully all heatwaves will be over.
Rod has chosen another hotel with a literary theme here in Frisco, The Rex. We dined in the restaurant last night and the bill arrived poking out of the pages of a 1909 book on mathematics. Himself said he had probably studied this very text back in the dark ages when he was a student.
The bar has an old library setting, complete with musty smelling books and deep comfy chairs, with writers desks, complete with old typewriters, along one wall. They even serve literary themed cocktails which I intend to try while I am here. Cecilia the Poets cocktail has midori in it, so appropriate I thought. Was too tired after walking around Sausalito yesterday afternoon to take in the names and all the ingredients but I will do some research and get back to you.
Have not yet put pen to paper regarding train poem but promise to knuckle down when I return home (after completing the dreaded December BAS for Mr Taxman)
Hope you are all managing to keep cool.
Tricia