Saturday came which, sans car, was blissfully lacking in a trip anywhere so
the dogs and I went up the creek instead…
and hung around the home place until Linda’s return that evening.
Semi-sacrificially Sunday
it was Partaay [!] at Leon’s,..not so bad, really, but exhausting for L. in the wake of all her travels. Hearing Brent’s unexpurgated obituary as well as Deep Dope Tales well told during the barbecue brought home to me how disconnected I, late-arriving and seldom partaking, have
always been from that community, really. And a whole lot else, come to think of it…ah well.
Nevertheless we wander the vast estates
not particularly alienated but eternally unstoned.
Monday was Pueblo and despite having forgotten our extensive list only two [!] items were forgotten, probably partly because it was not so horribly hot. After Big Bear Liquor we visited
Ashley Hardware, Safeway, the Vitamin Cottage, and PetSmart [yet more Large Puppy Food] before Jorge’s for the usuals, last trip of the fading summer. Needing to stock up for the long time away in Cali we were devastated to find Gagliano’s out of their famous Pueblo Green Chile sausages; nothing to be done*. Despite our five hours away back home the puppies had not
screwed up in any way whatever and the bounty included the short-lived but always much-
anticipated late August trifecta; Olathe Corn, Palisades Peaches and Rocky Ford Melons. You Californians, who can enjoy tasteless “peaches” year round, have no idea…
ditto for the melons and the corn. Another morning we visited Dean to belatedly introduce
the dogs, who were so impressively well-behaved
they even impressed el Viejo
while up in Denver “Spindrift” took shape…bigger than puppies. Down here and
more “room-friendly”, a maquette for a proposed chrome corner piece destined for Ms. Fleming’s show in November at Brian Gross came together…how, no one but L. can say.
Further afield and every year less interesting Burning Man’s webcast reinforces my minority
opinion that staying right whereat we’re at and watching paint dry through Labor Day
is infinitely more rewarding than the playa in summer. Of course, for people lucky enough to need people [and silicosis] it’s probably another story…artfotainment, art as spectacle, semi-nude bicycling…all the ants were, my friends, blowin’ in the wind.
On the other hand, here above the valley
with creatures great
and small,
we be content.
Even Gardner…
can seem kind of attractive, eh? Let alone the Dry Creek drainage
with dogs.
más anon…
* until Mike and Nance came to our rescue and picked up five freshly made packages later in the week.
We have our druthers! And painting at home is right there.
Looking forward to Linda’s show!
I too look forward to the show, and loved the “trailer”…..can hardly wait to see the piece itself. Seems like the two new puppies and Aggie have formed a group, with the latter seeming more relaxed. Could just be reading things into the images…..which as usual were beautiful. There is a farm that sell in season peaches and nectarines at our Monterey Farmer’s market, and I know the difference!
The puppies seem to be the ones Aggie has been waiting for. She not only tolerates but enjoys them…as a friend, not a playmate [they play rough and currently weigh in at 31 and 39 pounds to her 34]. You’re right, I’m sure, about the farmers’ market fruits in season, which we of course miss, though here for these few weeks peaches, melons and wonderful corn [is there still corn from Carmel Valley? I remember that from my childhood…] abound.
So, you’re sayin’ all California peaches are fake peaches?
I agree the majority are, but surely there must be some real ones, somewhere in the state!
But finding the perfect trifecta in Cali may well be impossible.
Previews of L’s new pieces look terrific! Will “Spindrift” be at Brian Gross?
The mysterious maquette (on glass? or plexi?) is most intriguing… looking forward to seeing it in chrome! What are the dates and opening?
All else at the colorado puppy commune looks quite nice and far more healthy than silicosis at BM.
Janet [comment, below] seems to have some pointers about peaches…as for “Spindrift”, it wouldn’t fit into Brian’s gallery even if it wasn’t destined for installation sometime before the end of the year at Mark Zuckerberg’s VR campus, which he is renting from the Chinese at Burlingame Point. The Mysterious Maquette is paint on mirror stainless; the chrome corner piece that resultswill be on view at Brian Gross from 9 November to year’s end…
Nobody’s got better peaches than mine, just like the apricots, very limited editions
Well there’s a reason for that, similar to why they don’t make it into California supermarkets…
…just (kinda) noticing the vivid tonal contrast between your pix and the ones from the burning earth festival…
(no judgements)
+ +
“Love your peaches, honey, wanna shake your tree”
I knew from the interior shot precisely the van I was going to see, and I seem to have anticipated the color as well. The puppies continue to charm, and the Renoir with peaches, corn and cantaloupe looks, well, good enough to eat! Also the contrail that looks like a piece of string across the sky is special. The blog continues as a very welcome visitor to my home and computer.
George had a black&white of a horned toad and his thumb. It was on the cover of the Valley Sun, I think. Surprised the Valley Sun let him do weird stuff:)
I still have a print of the picture he took of my scarred bare feet which ran as a cover called “End of Summer” or some such in the 1950’s…they played around a lot, I think.