The Front Moss

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The redwood veranda at Harry and Lynn's house,

scene of many a summer gathering beside the creek

and the young redwood trees.

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Harry died in 2005. When we visited Lynn, she was still in their home. I left Sara talking to her after a while and walked down the little stream, swollen by recent rain, and across and up the next hill on Harry's road.

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In the 1960s, Harry Clark sold his restaurant "La Bodega" in San Francisco and built this house in a Redwood forest somewhere above Calistoga, California. He cut in the road, logged a patch higher up the mountain for cash, and used solar panels to charge a bank of batteries that powered the house. A big wire ran down to the house from there. Harry was off the grid, physically and mentally. We visited this house many times to talk flamenco and drink Harry's wine. Harry and Lynn made their own wine from grapes their friends in the Napa valley grew.