Yep. that kind of day.... continued.....

[thoreau]

So - I followed through on my Dave Only Day. It was wonderful - we had breakfast together then drove out of the fog north to The Marin County Building (photo right) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (his final commission) It was actually constructed posthumously - and opened in 1963 with final construction of the exhibit hall and hall of justice opening in 1976.

One of things I love about Dave is how varied and exciting his interests can be. I turned to him last night - and I said - 'so on the Dave Only Day? what should we do?' and without skipping a beat he said - "lets go take pictures of the building in San Rafael that Frank Lloyd Wright designed." Very cool.






Then he turns to me and says "okay - after we get you a cold beverage (i'm dry out in a heartbeat) where close would we take a walk in the woods?"

I knew just the place - and KateyDog, David and I were off to Samuel Taylor Redwoods State Park.

Which was just GORGEOUS :) The afternoon sun was filtering through the trees and we had a wonderful walk with Miss Kate - watching families play frisbee, watching a wedding that was taking place in the park (complete with a new agey trioo of flute, harp and pan flute playing the wedding march; and the crowd blowing "bubbles" into the air.)

David was having fun taking the pictures today - so all the pictures in this post - - he took. (a fact he's very happy about)

Miss Kate also got in on the love - and then snored all the way home in the car. (adorable!)


and then we came home and he said "my favorite meal as a boy was spaghetti" and voila - I whipped up a lovely marinara sauce (from the recipe kitchenbeard taught me - with the ricotta) and boiled up some fresh fettucine which I tossed in a little olive oil, basil and parmesan - then served the sauce over the top. We had a romantic dinner - and off to the show I went. (another fine outing on stage....)

Now I'm home - I've washed off my makeup - and David and I are going to take Kateydog out then it's powersnugglevelcrosleepovertime^tm.

Comments

[septimuswarren.livejournal.com]

I have looked at that building so many times and wondered what why it exists! I didn't know Wright designed it. For what is it used?

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

it is the Marin county seat and Superior Court as well as a performance venue.


click here for the entire photo set (http://picasaweb.google.com/lowfatmuffin/FrankLloydWrightSMarinCountyCivicBuilding)