Where the Gardens Are Works of Art
Carneros, Napa, Calif.
Twilight on a Saturday
The big blue chair just east of the Carneros Junction marks the entrance to this eclectic venue that’s home to tasting rooms, a gourmet café, home and garden stores, galleries, and nine acres of garden installations collected from a select group of world-renowned landscape designers.
Shot at the Old School House and accompanying fields and ranches nearby, in the late afternoon.
If buildings could talk, the Tassajara School House would tell of children reciting lessons, ciphering and singing in a classic one-room school. Students from Tassajara Valley ranches attended this school from 1889 to 1946.
Students from first to eighth grade walked, rode horses and took buggies to get to school. In 1889 Richard D. Williams was the teacher and 41 students attended that August. Roger Podva (born in 1884) began school in 1890 and said there were 42-75 students at the school when he attended, sitting two to a desk. They learned mental arithmetic, reading, geography, spelling and writing. A picture of George Washington hung on the wall.
Today the School House sits in rural, restored splendor on its original site at 1650 Finley Road in Contra Costa County’s Tassajara Valley. A belfry with bell, old outhouses, a restored stable, picnic tables and a new redwood water tower complete the picture.
A twelve hour dance-a-thon at The Sugar Shack in Los Angeles to raise money for Lighting Up The Sky‘s New Orleans Garden Project.
My friend Jason makes me laugh. He’s a good, giving, thoughtful, sweet man with a penchance for utter debauchery.
Mama like. Mama like.
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photos and editing: Elle Toro and Mimi Cake
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Melissa Schilling
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