The Graduate.

6-6-15 LOS GATOS, CA: Judy and I have been here for a few days for Eoin’s graduation from Middle School, which happened yesterday for Eoin and 427 classmates. It was an outdoor ceremony in a town park that started in hot sun and ended in cool shade. It was the first time we saw Eoin in a suit.

We flew into SFO the previous evening, picked up our rental car and drove to Jon and Siobhan’s hillside home in Los Gatos. It’s a beautiful and unusual house with huge views of the South Bay from San José to Palo Alto and the southernmost bridge across the Bay. The house is set in woodlands and adorned with decks.

Today was a sports day with Joey’s soccer game in San José, they won, followed by Eoin’s baseball game in Campbell, they lost. Back at the house we watched European Soccer on the tube and caught the Belmont on the computer. After all the competition, we went for dinner, Chinese, in Palo Alto before Judy and I left for the airport for our redeye to Newark.


Los Gatos is the most cleanest and neatest town I have been in anywhere.

Two cats wanting to get out.

Every graduate, all 400 plus, got a rose with the instructions to give it to someone who was important to their graduation.

Multiple decks in the woods.

Pretty good California sunset.