for the usual Monday morning walk and then it seemed to take an unusually long time
getting out of town which with an unintended Sacramento misstep made for a longer
than usual trip up over the hill to the usual minimalist lunch off 89
before Sierra Valley,
and Doyle. The rest of the way, around the Fort Sage Mountains [earthquake warnings on the phones[!] as we were still in California {even though the earthquake was in Nevada}], over
Sand Pass, up the desert, over the Smoke Creek Bridge
and home went easily though the trip, already late, took an unprecedented 5 1/2 hours…
The next day, sunny, I got everything unloaded
and a chill [twenty degrees] walk in
in winter with
the studio briefly visited
and an evening walk to the chairs, all watched over by Elon’s inexorable symbolism.
Wednesday was even more wintery and also more populous; just at watercolor time
Chris Mahannah turned up with his friend Kurt and energetic airedale Gus to measure the wells’ flow, talk water and mountain bikes then late afternoon I had an online zoom “class” at Kaiser soon followed by Seth and Sonny for duck soup and a mellow time catching up…
The next morning, nearly snowing
and certainly wet
we walked the ponds, after which the cloud descended to the valley floor.
It all turned briefly bright after noon
though that didn’t last…Dark Days ahead, all around.
I’ve neglected to mention the TimeLife Corporation’s recently anointed “Man” of the Year here which is something I’d rather avoid as long as possible but suffice it to say that his or their textbook Dismantling of Democracy [accomplished despite a disturbing setback in 2020] is well documented. Especially if one is using Noah Yuval Harari’s “Nexus” as the textbook; Chapter 5, “Decisions”, pp. 118 – 190.