Thanksgiving in Walnut Creek.

Tue Dec 1 /2009 – Location, Home, CA

I seemed to have missed a few days posting on this blog. We drove to Walnut Creek on Thanksgiving morning for dinner and several days with our friends Cindy and Gary. Over the last several years we have spent many a Thanksgiving day with them. Thanks again Cindy and Gary for a great weekend and all the food.

On “Black Friday” Cindy and Clyda left very early for a day of shopping. Gary and I went on a short hike and watched football.

The street trees were in full color.

On Sunday we drove to Lake Berryessa north of Walnut Creek.

There were very few people around but the Ranger opened the visitor center for us and answered our questions. All but one of the campgrounds is permanently closed. They were run by private concessionaires but are in a state of disrepair now.

The dam and powerhouse at Lake Berryessa.

We drove to Winters, CA to checkout the Palms Theatre where we intended to attend a performance later that evening. We drove to Davis and drove around the campus and then stopped at a coffee shop to kill some time before going back to Winters.

The performance was by Maria Mulduar and her Garden of Joy jug band. Check out http://www.mariamuldaur.com/ for more info. The Palms is a small venue with about 100 people in attendance. Tickets were only $20 each. Maria is best known for her 1974 song “Midnight at the Oasis” record which is still heard on radio stations. This performance was all early jug band music which is some blues, some blusiana, and a little rock and roll thrown in. The show was quit good and the band was exceptional. We very much enjoyed 2 hours of that kind of music.

We drove home today with stops in Paso Robles and Nipomo dropping things off and picking things up from friends.