Mourners aboard the Chardonnay release the ashes of the Houghton family and scatter flowers in their memory into Monterey Bay Wednesday morning. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
A mourner tosses a flower into the water off Lighthouse Point in memory of the Houghton family Wednesday as their ashes were scattered in Monterey Bay. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
Bud Cunmmings's garden is a triumph of hard work over blackberry vines, papmas grass and poison oak. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
Bud Cummings in his garden near the harbor. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
Arana Creek number six flows over the hand placed rocks in Bud Cummings' garden. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
Bud Cummings and his labor of love. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
Bud Cummings's garden is a triumph of hard work over blackberry vines, papmas grass and poison oak. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
Live Oak kids put some patriotic artwork on a skateboard ramp during a block party on Webster Street last year. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
Benjamin Bratt flashes a smile while in Santa Cruz Friday for the screening of his brother Peter's film "La Mission". (Bill Lovejoy/Santa Cruz Sentinel