We finally made it all the way to Libre’s spring, noting workday improvements all along the way

and then, once down and lunched, I went through Gardner

and roadwork [finishing the painting at last!] to a round of errands in

Warm Walsenburg, picking up the paper to learn ICE will reopen the privatized prison across

from the transfer station, Aguilar is still broke, and real estate remains unrealistically optimistic.

Friday we witnessed the Death of an Antlion as it laid down on a rock to fold its wings, after

that

and lunch Linda took

off for the Springs for her hopefully connective flight to DIA, which despite some weather

issues did make it to Hailey, Idaho…all of which worked out so the next day it was just me,

the overcast and the dogs.

Professor Fleming was up early in Idaho

working all day to get “Magnetic Fields” installed in her new friend Tim’s new compound then

after an exquisite dinner in town was away before sunrise Sunday leaving him

to take the first photos as I and the dogs, ever enthralled by the latest offerings from

Beatie and Brian, took off down the meadow

to become temporarily stranded in the Yellow Zone

before finishing out the morning, after which Linda returned, exhausted but exuberant from her forty- seven hours away, for lunch, shortly after which sporadic gentle rains began to fall

whereas further west [cameras up!…temporarily, it turned out] in Gerlach it seemed a bit

windier…even moreso out on the playa as  Another Epic Burn began….