Brown Motion

America yet again celebrated Thanksgiving this Thursday.  A moment for families to attempt to get together and sit at the dinner table for some traditional or not so traditional meals as a family.  Which can be hard sometimes. We usually tend to eat as a family of three daily given the bulk of the extended family is a half planet away.   But we are thankful for a lot.  This time in California the big thanks goes to nature.  Nature who decided to shower this land with a bounty of fresh rain, a much needed downpour to drown out the fires burning among several communities and clear the air literally. Using that as an excuse to step out we went walking in a nearby wooded region to smell in the fresh moist air and give those stagnant limbs something to do.  Here are some pictures from that walk in the woods... Trading the indoor shopping craziness and clearances for the vast outdoors was and will remain the clear choice for us for any Thanks...

After depositing the child at a school in Orinda to take her Scholastic Aptitude Test or the SAT we decided to use our Sat as in Saturday to good use.  Given this part of our bay was relatively new to us we set about first on foot, then by car to browse the towns of Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda also known in the hood (or this part of the bay) as LaMoRinda for short. Since the school where the kid had to write was in Orinda we strolled its green leafy streets taking in the absence of any sort of retail.  That was then followed by a drive to a Catholic educational establishment called St. Mary's College situated in Moraga.   Situated on 400 plus lush acres it is a scenic setting on some prime real estate.  The church certainly has good taste.  A private liberal arts college surrounds the central church building, which rises on the green plateau surrounded by rolling hills. We visited the church, which always is a treat since the interiors are ple...