St. Monica's Catholic Church

St. Monica's Roman Catholic Church is on a very broad way going westwardly out of Willows. It has many a row of Italian cypress. Cupressus sempervirens is also called graveyard cypress. It is a mournful tree, common in cemeteries.

Common Grounds

Common Grounds is just north of the center of downtown in Willows. It has inside, outside, and upstairs seating. The position of choice is a plumb red cushion in a small room off the main room. Good place to hear elderly locals bluntly sum up the world as of any mid-morning and to consume heated sticky buns.

Willows

The town of Willows is located in the Sacramento Valley, off Interstate 5, about half way between Sacramento and Red Bluff. The town as a whole does not have the sense of humor that New Pine Creek has, or Pt. Arena. It does, however, have some pairings worthy of the weird.
Downtown, in one building, are The Ark and Holi Market, back to back, one facing west and the other east. Just north of downtown is a building that houses both the Car-Mar-Ray Association and Paratransit Services. There is the way the entrances to the sacred and the secular play with architectural traditions. And, then, scattered about are '76 Joy Street, the Law Offices of J. Mark Atlas, and the beauty salon Identite, with an acute accent over the final "e."