Son and mother, Berkeley, CA. And a nod to the mother of Mother’s Day, Julia Ward Howe  (Anna Jarvis’ latecomer’s trademarks notwithstanding): Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation – 1870 Arise then…women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! Say

Behind the café, Berkeley, CA.   When she was a young woman, my mother lived with her mother in the apartment building pictured in the background, above.  Berkeley still had its Key Route streetcar system back in the 1930s, and she rode one every day to high school, lugging her