Andy Wertheim: A New Book To Consider

Hello Friends,

Our weather continues to assist with the fire danger in Tahoe.  The skies seem to fill with clouds daily and often drop hail, rain, or at least block the sun from drying out the ground.  This is great for the flowers and to keep dust down, but it makes it difficult to time outdoor activities.  Yesterday a client walked into the office who was out riding the bike trail soaking wet.  Thunder and lightening cancelled the Sunday afternoon music at Common Beach and forced the Tuesday Blues concert indoors.  The air is cool today.  There has not been much wind which is making the paddle boarding, water skiing, and kayaking pretty good on smooth water.

This type of weather is good for reading which brings to a place where I intend to plug a new book that happens to have been written by my father.  The book chronicles my father’s life from his early years growing up in Germany to his arrival in the United States at a young age and follows his life in America from military service to a successful career in Landscape Architecture.  The book, which he has self published, just became available.  I am reading it now and find it fascinating.  Of course he is my father, but the detail that he remembers from his childhood, the extremely difficult situations he endured in Germany as he describes them, along with his on going trials and tribulations in a new country make for interesting reading.  Because my father, as well as my entire family have been so involved in Alpine Meadows over the years, I thought some of you might be interested in reading his life story.  My father just completed this book at the age of 94.  The book is called “Chasing Spring” by Ernest Wertheim, and is available from http://www.lulu.com in paperback or hardback.

Enjoy your day,

Andy Wertheim