A Flower and a Bridge

A flowering artichoke in our backyard.

I'm on-call today as the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge is set to open this afternoon -- at least for an official ceremony and ribbon-cutting, if not to regular folks quite yet.

That is to start tomorrow morning at 5 a.m.

As always, with planned news events such as this one, we have both scheduled coverage and contingency plans, should something unexpected occur.

So I'll be paying attention and probably editing some posts this afternoon. This bridge replaqces the one that broke in the Loma Prieta 'quake 24 years ago.

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p.s. I've abandoned plans to republish my mother's memoir here via photographs of the pages. I'm going to explore other options.