The Heinlein Society presents…
A Photo Tour of Bonny Doon
Part 2
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©Virginia Heinlein, used with her permission
Captions by William H. Patterson
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kitchen entrance
Redwoods. The clear area at the base is what happens with redwood litter -- it's highly acidic, so nothing but another redwood can grow there; a major tree dies off and a ring of smaller trees grows around the area it used to stand. This is a young redwood -- I think it's the Aptos blue variety, but you can't really tell from the photo
greenhouse
flagpole
The pool, covered for winter
Pool and cabana
Steps to secure footing during the wet weather. There's a lot of clay in that soil, so it gets very slick during the rainy season
Exterior, side view of main entranceway
The laundry drying rack is on the right, Ginny used to prefer air-drying laundry whenever possible
This may be the "Commie Shed." When they bought the property, one of its features was a shed used during the 1950's to conduct surveillance on a communist cell nearby. They used it for garden implement storage.
