(In Memory)

out & about

Chico, Rolling Hills Casino, Walmart...

Last full day the Way family gets to spend together as a threesome until next month...

...Driving past Snow Mountain and Stonyford, through Glenn County, and on to...

...Butte County (pop. 220,000 - *AHEM*, gay hookup sites and statistical likelihoods...), and the city of Chico!

Chico is home to Chico State University, Butte College (attended by none other in the past than Green Bay Packers QB and sexy NorCal goober Aaron Rodgers), cell phone towers (pictured), and...

...The Home Depot, where we went shopping for trees...

...And saw lots of flowers...

...And bricks...

...And more flowers...

...Even a bird of paradise! In October!

(Scenic Butte College, a junior college in the North State - colloquially known as Butt University, or Booty School.)

(Chico Refinery)

(Anna Karenina on the WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS, DAWG!)

(Orchards!)

(Yours truly getting close to the casino buffet, and the answer to the mystery of why our stomachs grumble.)

(Our driver, and contributor to the News Coulomb, Eric Way.)

I'm on a see-food diet: I see it, I eat it! (At Rolling Hills Casino, from which I've never been ejected - kicked out for winning!)

...And then, finally, Walmart (of course we're at Walmart - that's Deutsch cheese, yo!)

Octoberween 2017!

I may be an April Taurus, but October is probably my favorite month -- the colors, the cooler air, woodsmoke, shitty candy, skulls and ghosties and witches.... And pomegranates!

(This week, Eric, my brother, is visiting all the way from Ventura!)

Miss Biggie... Getting on to 13 years of age, and rather daft...

Her family may have started from sod-roofed cabins outside of Lincoln, but she graduated from a city high school, 1942!

Mom would know where the Swenson's originated, of course... (Well, duh, from Sweden, but where in Sweden? May as well be Uppsala for all I know - but the voices say Malmo...)

Eric and the chatelaine...

...And the cause of that pesky Persephone Syndrome with which I've been afflicted at times...

...I just *love* pomegranates, though!