Other Water Fronts

ByNancy September 3, 2009January 25, 2019

Just returned from a wedding in California where we visited three kinds of water, not to worry about it, or tell people what to do with it, or pontificate about it, but just to do the best things possible with it:

Play!

Tom and the boys at Baker Beach in San Francisco

Have a party!

Tom built this pond for his cousin/best friend whose wedding we were all in the Bay Area to celebrate.

Be awestruck.

Heading toward Point Reyes on the way home.

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