Los Gatos.

3-21-16 LOS GATOS, CA: Eoin’s concert is tonight. We hope it is as enjoyable as the one we saw Saturday night at NJPAC in Newark. Joshua Bell and The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields offered Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Schumann and Beethoven—more about that later.

This morning the kids are in school and the parents are working so we walked around Los Gatos downtown, eerily clean, shiny cars, lots of dogs with their walkers. The shops are landscaped and decorated, maybe there are more designers than banks, and a bunch of upscale hotels. We are at the Hotel Los Gatos—stucco and tile roofs with lots of palms and flowers. We did a couple miles on the Los Gatos Creek trail. It was fairly muddy, a good sign, and there were lots of other folks out there. The creek has enough water for pretty vigorous flow, also a good sign. We walked back on College Ave. We saw live oak, eucalyptus, roses, rhododendron and lots of other flowers and shrubs that I recognize, but can't remember the names of. We also saw a pair of new birds, new for us, Acorn Woodpeckers, blue/black, red head, yellow eye, white face.


Hotel Los Gatos done in Spanish style and flowers - very Cal.

Lots of precious shoppes.

Roses...

Los Gatos Creek trail with big, live oak spanning the walkway.

Los Gatos Creek with water.

Red rhododendron.

Acorn Woodpecker.