The last of the cameras for now

Here are some close ups of cameras from Hexagram.

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Memory Lane

When they are writing the coffee table book of my life these pictures will be vitally important. Vitally.

Heh.

In honor of my brother and sister in law's one month anniversary, I am posting the results of a mini trip down memory lane with my parents. On the way back from LA on Saturday, we stopped for lunch at the Madonna Inn. Our family stayed there on a couple of road trips. I only remember one stay, in the Canary Cottage. Brat that I was, I was disappointed...I wanted to stay in one of these. If you are ever down the 101, you've got to stop and have lunch or dinner there. Often there are last minute cancellations for rooms, and you can stay there that night if you've got the clams. Reservations are months in advance otherwise.

By the time we got back to San Mateo, we had shared all of our family stories with Alex. We decided that we must make a pilgrimage to Pacifica where I was born and raised. So Sunday we loaded up in the car again and headed out. Pacifica is a very unique city with beautiful views of the Pacific and piney windswept cliffs. It was great to visit again.

Below are pix from our visits, with the very last one an aerial view of 844 Cape Breton care of Terraserver.

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One of the facades of the Madonna Inn. Dad leads the charge. 

My radiant mom in the Madonna Inn cafe which is sort of Swiss Chalet meets Boy George. 

"Your beauty is your smile" 

One of the many Madonna Inn claims to fame is the motion activated waterfall/loo in all the Gents. 

 

 

 

My parent's first apt. together in Pacifica. I lived there as a fetus. 1970. (Upper left hand window) 

The surf in Pacifica regularly slams over this barricade and washes into the houses and their windows in this neighborhood. 

The Little House on Madeira Street. The small room built off the left is a later addition. I have a fabulous picture of my mom posing on the porch that used to be back there. 1970-1974. 

844 Cape Breton Drive...our house from 1974-1978.