We celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary today. We were married at Saint Teresa of Avila Church in Bodega, a town we visited regularly on the coast.
The white, wooden church sits on a hilltop above the small town. It was built by shipbuilders in 1859 and is the oldest church in continuous use in Sonoma County.
St. Teresa’s was featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film, The Birds, and is the subject of a famous photograph created in 1953 by Ansel Adams. We have a print in our home, next to a typewritten note from Herb Caen: “Much love, luck and happiness to you and Shannon — a lovely name.”
We honeymooned in Anguilla and St. Barts, swimming, sailing and celebrating. We spent #20 in Hawaii with our son. Today will be more sedate but still enjoyable — getting our son to school on time, reading page proofs of Placer County’s Visitor Guide and barbecuing swordfish on the Big Green Egg. We have been blessed over the years — no doubt about it.
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Congratulations Jeff! I grew up in the Petaluma area and know Bodega well.
Congratulations on your anniversary. May you have many more!!
Jeff:
You’re right — you and Shannon have indeed been blessed. An enduring, loving marriage and a son like Mitchell are as big a blessing as any couple could hope for.
Congratulations.
Thanks Steve. We enjoy your columns in the Advocate, but it’s not the same as a beer at the Mine Shaft. All the best.
Congratulations!! Nothing sweeter than a long, harnonious relationship and a healthy family.
BTW, is the last picture you and your wife on weddiing day?, which I though at first, but from the back, she also looks like, Tippi Hendron, wasn’t it?
Ed,
LOL! But think Alfred Hitchcock, not Rod Taylor, at least 21 years later.
Well, in all respects, IMO, that’s a more distinguished icon to be associated with. Shakespeare started me on my life long love and use of puns–eliciting groans for decades– with the ending line, I think, of one play, that went something like this, spoken by a guy that was dying, “I find this a very grave situation . . .” And, Hitchcock, a man of many faceted brillance, justified such punishment of others, when declaring in an TV interview, “Puns are the highest form of humor.”
BTW, my Danish brother-in-law spent several days at Ansel Adams’ home, arranged by my sister who started as a model, but became head of the art collection of Poloroid. His work is stunning.(BTW#2 Poloroid, despite digital cameras, was looted much like Enron, with the top brass Republican CEO–went to same church as my devout GOP aunt– getting golden parachute, and employees getting scre*ed. Last CEO is now in Federal prison, a guy named Petters, I think.)