For two days in July, hundreds of people who live or work in Yountville took turns ducking into a photo booth in front of the community hall. Alone, in pairs, with pets or in family groups, they sat for their portraits by San Francisco photographer Christopher Irion. Irion specializes in the human face, and uses his homemade photo booth as a studio that allows his subjects to pose in privacy while he snaps their pictures through a small window.

’ve always thought a really good game is one that can alter time. You sit down thinking, “Oh, I’ll just play for an hour or so.” Next thing you know, it’s four hours later and the dog is staring at you pathetically, waiting to be fed.

We’re very lucky to have a lovely person named Frances Ortiz-Chavez, director of the Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center, as our guest writer today. Thanks to Frances, we will see through the eyes of a Puertas Abiertas client, a 74-year-old Latina woman.

My dear friend and former Queens Village, N.Y., neighbor Gerry Hargous, a retired attorney and skilled artist, sent me a letter the other day with enclosures and a note.

A short time ago, I had occasion to go into the beautifully restored Wells Fargo Bank branch in downtown Napa, on the corner of Second and Main streets.

I have this thing strapped to my arm. Under a sweater it looks like an abnormally big tricep. When I’m in a T-shirt, it looks like a big lump with a thick gray strap.