Applesauce!

We have a bumper crop of apples this year.  Maybe it is because of one year's decent rain after several years of drought.  Ingrid can't bear to see any of the apples go to waste.  So now, several times per week, she makes a batch of applesauce.  Sometimes I help, or maybe Daniela does if she happens to visit.

The whole process takes about 90 minutes, half active and half cooking.  Chop, peel, and slice.  Put the apples into a pot with a bit of sugar, cinnamon, and water.  Simmer on low heat.  Delicious!

Bicycling to Point Reyes Station

We took two days off for an out-and-back ride to Point Reyes Station, about 45 miles each way.  The route took us through urban San Francisco, over the Golden Gate Bridge, along side streets in neighborhoods of small towns in Marin, and finally through the more remote rural landscape of west Marin county.

Starting the ride along the Embarcadero

GG Bridge beyond Fort Mason

Warming Hut at Crissy Field

Alcatraz!

Through Marin wetlands N of Sausalito

10,000 Buddhas, rural Marin County style.

Living room at the Pt Reyes Station Inn

We rode back through SP Taylor Park

No salmon over 20 tons allowed on this bridge!

Historic park in Corte Madera

Always scenic!

Looks like we're alone, right? … guess again.