san francisco

Nine years ago, I came to San Francisco to visit a childhood friend.  Someone I used to walk to school with.  We really only had vague memories of each other but by the time we found out we weren’t even in the same class at Easter School, we’ve become new best friends.

[Nine years onwards,  and Amy, it is great to be back again.  Thank you for inviting us to be part of an important day in your life.   We appreciate the time you took off of your crazy-busy wedding preparations to be with us and to take care of things for our time there.  It was fun to meet your girlfriends and get dolled up for your day.  It was very cool to introduce husbands into the circle of friendship.

So we might have to gag and bind Augie to get him outside of "Metropolis" but we definitely look forward to spending time with the both of you again ...soon!

In San Francisco, where we've never been to so many Filipino restaurants in the space of four days, November 2009]

 

falling forward

We were hoping to do some foliage spotting last weekend, but once again, the gray clouds rolled in.

We’re certain the riot of colours in the mountains of North Carolina would have been an amazing sight, and we are truly sorry to have missed it this year.  But there is also beauty all around us.  We visited a couple of parks in the area, and took photos around our apartment complex as well.

Our last few conversations have turned a lot on our preparations to move back to Australia.  Three years fly in an instant, while still feeling like an eternity when you’re in the thick of it.  You watch the leaves turn and fall and wonder whether this is how the tree has gained its wisdom.  It stands and lets its leaves go, knowing winter must come before life returns in spring.   Every year it stands taller, its roots grow deeper and its branches spread wider. We will definitely miss the deciduous trees of North Carolina.

On stay-cation, October 2009]