Claremont.
It was an easy day, which we started with a walk over to Scripps college, where Marg and Mark walked M’Lou and Perla. The dawgs got many a smile from students just beginning the new semester on this lovely morning.
We went by the gardens at Scripps where Marg and Mark got married, and where the BGC speech was given by Bev. I released a little more of Bev’s ashes in the garden.It was an easy day, which we started with a walk over to Scripps college, where Marg and Mark walked M’Lou and Perla. The dawgs got many a smile from students just beginning the new semester on this lovely morning.
Once back home, while I was writing my blog for the day I enjoyed hearing Mark, Mark, and David, who had come over, rehearse for this Wednesday’s Squeakin’ Wheels gig in Redlands, which I’m excited to see. The rehearsal was made even better – exponentially better – by Perla and M’Lou accompanying Marguerite as she provided the normal “yips” in the background of the song “Coyotes, joining in with their own very enthusiastic chorus of yips and howls. It was wonderful. They should join the band, if only for this song.
A few more photos, just hanging around the house, before Marg and I took a drive mid-afternoon up to Mount Baldy.
We headed up to Mount Baldy, just a few miles from here, in the fabulous San Gabriel mountains, where Bev and Marg would sometimes go to hike or picnic. The afternoon was drawing on, and the weather was refreshing. We hiked an easy 2 mile round trip, going up to about 5,600 feet before heading back, as it was getting on, and we were going to visit Marg’s loooong time and very good friend, Annie Marquis, whose exciting tales I’ve heard many times over the years, but have only actually met once before, quite some time ago.
It was nice to spend some time with Annie, who lives in a place she’s been building herself for some time now, and definitely living a life of her own making and choices. I think Annie’s quite something! Her garden, typical of this area, very southern California, wild, and desert-like, is lovely. So, too, is that Nash Continental sitting in front of her home.
Annie is also quite the accomplished artist. She made this tribute for Truck the Dog many years ago, still on display on our mantlepiece at home.
Had a nice dinner at home, hung out, and went to bed. The embroidered “Treasured Friend” pillow that Marguerite had placed on my bed, which was lovely in itself, was made even lovelier when I learned that Bev had given it to Marguerite as a gift. Treasured friends, indeed.
