You get used to one-stop grocery shopping, maybe compromising some items. But there's a certain kind of wonderful in shopping local specialty shops. Fresh roasted coffee beans (Need For Beans), elderflower liqueur (Liquor Barn), bread flour (Moore's Flour Mill), Szechuan pepper (Kanya Asian Mkt)

In the cold dark of winter, I enjoy remembering what summer is like. On the banks of beautiful Hat Creek, Lassen, last September, with my dulcimer.

Winter picnics are special. #wayfarervan #whiskeytownlake