I just found out that a friend, Elliott Smith, from Oakland has died in a ski accident. He was a great, kind man. Everyone will truly miss him. The news came as quite a shock. We will always remember him taking pictures of the restoration work being done at Sausal Creek and the way he loved the children that came out to help. Being such a great photographer, it is a shame I don’t have a better picture of him, but here he is in 2003 at our two week wedding aniversary party. He was definitely someone I was going to visit when I am in California this Christmas. I really wanted to show him the baby.
Alas, it is a reminder that life is not all about birth. Death is a part of it also. Goodbye friend…