Mendocino

We just spent four days in Mendocino.  Katherine was taking a watercolor workshop there.  This photo shows the garden in front of the Inn where we stayed.  I have difficulty capturing the essence of Mendocino in photographs so this will have to suffice for now.

We could see that the economy has taken its toll on the town.  Along Main Street there were a number of vacant stores.  Even though the summer music festival was in full swing, it was easy to get restaurant reservations.  Several inns that were the cream of the crop in earlier years have failed.  (That may be due to bad management though.)

Nevertheless, the town is as attractive as ever.  The restaurants were as good as ever.  (I suspect that some that we avoided were as bad as ever.)