Blooming in Winter

When Pam Valois, a young photographer, met Jacomena Maybeck in 1979, she
saw the woman she wanted to be in her own later years. Tarring roofs
and splitting logs into her eighties, Jackie presided over the legacy of
Bernard Maybeck and his clan on Berkeley’s legendary Nut Hill. The
friendship between the two women led to a best-selling book—Gifts of Age, a treasury of stories about successful aging. Blooming in Winter is an intimate portrait of Jackie that gives us a paradigm for living exuberantly until the very end.