NOW I get it...and understand SO much more about my beloved friend Elise - you inherited it all from your Mom!! I loved your folks and enjoyed good times with the family there in Los Altos several visits and also on our cross-country trek in the RV - I truly don't recall how that came about except that I found myself driving it at one point (I had had my drivers license for maybe a few months?!). How wonderful to read about this Granbde Dame's life and loves...echoes of which I had the pleasure to experience first hand and the rest of which, as I say, I see living and active in Elise and Spoke the Hub and gardening in the City and yes - a goofy sense of humor to boot. Much love to all, Betsy

Elise and I got to know each other just as we both left Los Altos for college, so I don’t have many memories of Annette and Bill Long, but I do remember them as very joyful people. One day I was in the Los Altos kitchen when your Mom was preparing a salad. She showed me how she was slivering some onion into it for flavor, and told me that if anyone was sensitive to onion, you could scrape the cut side with a knife and just add some juice to the salad. This is the tiniest of encounters, but I still prepare my salads as taught by Annette Long!

Mom in the 1040s

This is a tough act to follow, E. But I know you will and you will do her more than proud! I met your mother once on the stoop at 748 Union St. during a Local Produce festival and marveled at her 'lightness of being' not really even knowing who she was at the time and just enjoyed talking to her. She was the real deal and always will be.