with bright mornings,

a trip to Leland Stanford Junior University to visit Linda’s “Space Lace” [1997] and celebrate

the David Rumsey Map Center’s third anniversary with a Dinner,

subsequent meanderings around breezy Benicia

and the High School Band’s annual benefit car show, missed last year…

SO many lavishly finished intensely worked-over examples of overwrought machinery…

and some less so but of every varietal

[I’d been remembering the Chevrolet Nomad we used to go to the desert in with George Anderson, and here there were two – a ’56 and [not shown] a ’55 – curiously coincidental.]

down First Street, spilling onto the green Green

and even unto H.