C. It surprised me to find C there, since this isn't usually her crowd, but we ended up spending most of the evening together. Some say that Lulu is the center of the Universe. Or at least of our neighborhood. It is definitely the best coffee house around to meet people you know and don't know. Lulu herself is often in attendance.
Unpredictable things happen.
The shop was closed yesterday and today for Memorial Day, so I had to go downtown for my coffee. You may remember the big jar of olives from this winter. In this image notice how the reflection's from outside create an interesting set of layers. In particular, there are three wooden tubs of flowers next to a chain link fence on the lower left, and a bit of sky and a roofline on the upper right. A young man leaves his ailing mother to go study with an elderly Zen monk in the mountains.