Barbara,
Andy and Maddie Visit
The three of them
rented a house in Nevada City and had a ball
seeing the town close in and on foot as they visited us at Eskaton.
May 30 -- June 2, 2017
©2017
Herbert E. Lindberg
They
arrive to a modest Victorian located just one long outside flight of stairs
(about 5 stories high) up the side of a hill from the
Stonehouse and the corner of Boulder and Broad Streets.
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Then follow
instructions to extract the key from a lock box.
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Barbara
made us all a magnificent
vegetarian meal served at this table.
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Bench
and patio out the dining room window.
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| Another slice of
the same scene. |
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| Barbara did her
magic here. |
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The
kitchen also has a nice eating bar with cushy stools and a view of the
hall and living room bookshelf next to the kitchen.
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| Another entry
deck and bench sits outside the kitchen door. |
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| Stairs to the
kitchen deck. |
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| The next day we
had lunch at the street cafe across from the church on Broad Street. |
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Then off to
Empire Mine State Historical Park on Thursday. We hoped to see the tail
end of the first wave of roses in the Bourne Cottage garden but they were
almost entirely gone. A good crop of foxglove served as
consolation, as you see here and in later photos.
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| Barbara stopped
for a photo op on her way back from taking close-ups. |
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| Meanwhile, Maddie
and Mary found nice seats on a nearby wall. |
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| A less posed
aftershot. |
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| Almost all the
color in the main rose garden was from foxgolves like these. |
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| Crop in for a
better view of the blossoms. |
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This was a
natural shot from my wheelchair
while Barbara and others explored
onward. |
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This is the path
from the low wall surrounding the Bourne Cottage lawn (behind the
camera) back toward the visitor center. Rose bushes lined both sides but dried
blooms had been pruned by the day we arrived.
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They're looking at
a vine that had taken over the lower thirty to forty feet of a nearby
pine tree. Their inspection revealed that both vine and tree, which
went up another 100 feet or so, remained healthy. Barbara later walked
over to check out the 9-inch trunk of the vine.
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