Bright but cold
during breakfast I watched from the porch as Dave and the Italians headed for pavement
and afternoon, quiet
at the chairs, a site not used in the filming
nor was the repo, though
it seemed Sunday’s sunset was most likely the one they’d been hoping for the day before.
Monday, another day; normale, similar
to Tuesday too, which is to say an hour or so at the computer waiting for the temperature to get above freezing before morning’s walk around the ponds, breakfast on the porch,
Daily Watercolors [hampered, in this case, by the fact that the 22×30″ 300# Arches had run out Monday] then lunch [again on the porch, weather permitting, which weather did],
outdoor tasks, a studio visit and, end of afternoon, the chairs and environs aka
the afternoon walk. Wednesday, al otro lado, was something else entirely;
earlier up, 18 degrees,
and a deer to send us down de zert, goodbye.
Fish Springs Road,
[there were supposed to be a lot of antelope in the pic below, but I sure don’t see ’em]
Doyle and 395 south, 70 to Vinton,
49 around Sierra Valley, 89 to Truckee and 80 west pretty much unimpeded for once into
funny Sunny California and
back to Benicia to try to figure out…what to do.
I thought that looked more like Benicia at the end 🙂 Did the Italians make it up to another one of your places? I heard they visited the old bar. So wonderful to see you both at the wedding. Although it would have been nice to have more time to talk. It got loud in there quickly. We’ll miss having you in Del Mar for Thanksgiving….but know you are always welcome at the table. Send my love to Linda too!
Definitely Benicia at the end and yes, gli Italiani did make it there…nowhere else [although they were at Wall once long ago – our wedding in ’96. The Italians I was referring to leaving Wall Spring were Andrea and Antonio, heading back to Rome after filming Dave, not Bryan and Rebe.
The antelope are there if you zoom in to the outcrop of rock in center of the NW quadrant; quite a few in fact. Love the pic of the various measuring tools!
Although looking again even more zoomed the fleet-footed creatures have vanished
Aren’t they on the road? Hah…maybe they come and go…