Amy's Drive-Through

A  L  O  H  A !

Have you tasted prepared  

meals from Amy's Kitchen?

We've been enjoying their 
healthy, vegetarian, non-GMO, 
organic convenience foods 

for almost 30 years. 

Founders Andy & Rachel Berliner have opened their first 
Amy's Drive Thru restaurant 

in Rohnert Park California.

The building is welcoming and 

futuristic at once, with more than 

50 solar panels, a green roof.

Inside, we found  95% salvaged, 

re-purposed  wood. There's even 

a drive-thru window, and it

was BUSY the day we visited.  

"The Amy," a veggie burger, 

comes with single or double patties,

  house-made bun, "secret sauce," 

pickles, organic tomatoes. 

Single burger $2.49 

($2.99 with cheese)

Amy's pizzas, burritos, salads,  

milkshakes and mac & cheese, 

are also made from scratch 

right on the premises with 

vegan or gluten-free 

options for each item!

Local foods are preferred 

as possible. We drank coffee 

from Coast Roast Coffee 

in Tomales, ate pickles 

brined by Sonoma Brinery, 

and I enjoyed Clover Stornetta 

sour cream on my burrito.

What a fun sense of occasion! 

Everyone seemed very happy to be there, patrons and workers both. 

There was a feeling of something great beginning, and we all felt smart for being among the first to eat there.

I inhaled my lunch

before remembering

to take a photo!

Please excuse me

BEST Strawberry Milkshake EVER!

Good Luck, Amy's!

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Beyond-ing

A  L  O  H  A  ! 

“ The problem is not 

to find the answer, it's

 to face the answer. ”

                                     Terence McKenna

" Ima be 

on the next level.

 Ima be rockin

 over that bass treble. "

                               Black Eyed Peas 

Waikiki

“Beyond the picket fences 

and the oil wells,

 the happy endings,

 and the fairy tales, 

is the reality 

of shattered lives

 and broken dreams. 

We carry on.”

                             Tim McGraw

Marin County CA

" Civilization is just a 

slow process of

 learning to be kind. "

               Charles L. Lucas

Linking to
Our World Tuesday

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for kindly visiting!

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Sunday Kind

A  L  O  H  A !

" If there is anything that 

we wish to change 

in the child, 

we should first examine it 

and see whether it 

is not something 

that could better be 

changed in ourselves. "

                                             C.G. Jung 

                                             Integration of the Personality, 

                                                                   1939

" Your children need 

your presence more 

than your presents. "

                                Jesse Jackson

" A man is not idle 

because he is 

absorbed in thought. 

There is a visible labor and 

there is an invisible labor. "

Victor Hugo

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Shadow Shot Sunday

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Friend!

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Weekend Reflections

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" Treat your friends as

 you do your pictures, and 

place them in their best light. "

                               Jennie Jerome Churchill

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Weekend Reflections

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Watching Water Dogs

A  L  O  H  A !

" If you want to relax, 

watch the clouds pass by -

- if you're laying on the grass, 

or sit in front of the creek; 

-  just doing nothing and

having those still moments 
is what really
rejuvenates the body. "
                        Miranda Kerr

" It is best to be yourself, imperial, 
plain and true. "
              Robert Browning

 " Abundance is not 

                                 something we acquire. -

- It is something we tune into. "

          Wayne Dyer

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Saturday's Critters


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for floating by!
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Novato

A  L  O  H  A !

Novato (/nəˈvɑːtoʊ/ nə-vah-toh) 

is a city in northern Marin County, 

in the North Bay region of the 

San Francisco Bay Area, 

about 30 miles (48 km) north of 

San Francisco on U.S. 101.

 2010 U S Census population: 51,904.

Today's Novato was home to several 

Coast Miwok villages: 

Chokecherry, Puyuku,  and Olompali, 

[at the present Olompali State Historic Park.^[9]]]

In 1839 the Mexican government 

granted the 8,876-acre 

(35.92 km²) Rancho Novato 

to Fernando Feliz. 

[The rancho was named after a 

local Miwok leader who had 

probably been given the 

name of Saint Novatus 

at his baptism.^[10] ]

Novato, along with 

the rest of California,

became part of the United States 

on February 2, 1848. 

" If you don't support the death penalty

 and citizens packing a pistol - 

don't come to Texas. 

If you don't like medicinal marijuana 

and gay marriage, don't move to California. "

Rick Perry

"I grew up in Marin County 

north of San Francisco, and 

in the 1950s and '60s 

it was a natural paradise." 

                                 Huey Lewis

 A railroad was built in 1879, 

connecting Novato to Sonoma County

 and San Rafael. The current depot 

was built in 1917, but closed in 1959 

and is largely derelict. 

The station is still standing.

The Presbyterian church, 

still a landmark in Novato today, 

was built in 1896. Until 2006 it 

housed a number of city offices,

 but was vacated that year due 

to safety concerns and condemned. 

The church has since been renovated,

and city offices returned.

Novato has warm, mostly dry summers 

and cool, wet winters.

 Average January temperatures were 

a maximum of 53.6 °F (12.0 °C) and a 

minimum of 38.7 °F (3.7 °C). 

Average July temperatures were a 

maximum of 79.9 °F (26.6 °C) and 

a minimum of 52.0 °F (11.1 °C). 

Novato was incorporated 

as a city in 1960

Thanks, 

Wikipedia

And Thank YOU

for strolling with us!

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Sky Watch

A  L  O  H  A  !

" This is the California 

that men dreamed of

 years ago, this is the Pacific

 that Balboa looked at 

from the Peak. . .

  this is the face of the 

earth as the Creator 

intended it to look. "

                         Henry Miller

Northern California

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Sky Watch Friday

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