another Wednesday in Transition, almost a tradition…
A last chill [eighteen degrees] look around, early breakfast and
out the gate as the grader pulled away north and I
went south, down the desert
to Fish Springs Road, the updated Cherokee and
Doyle, 23 there but
eight out in Sierra Valley
From where, despite my unfamiliarity and the fog,
I reconnected with 49 to
Sierraville, 89 [not shown] to 80
over Donner and down across
that Cali Valley
to Benicia’s sleeping dogs lying.
The next things to happen were Visitors from the North…
more about those, laters.
The broken yellow center line in what I take to be somewhere between 49 and 80 possibly in or near Sierra Valley, I find uncannily reminiscent (particularly in the photo with two snow-covered trees marking a farm) of old highway 93 north of Shoshone just coming over Timmerman Hill into the Wood River Valley. The terrain is not identical but the macadam is, and the terrain reminiscent at least. Thanks!
Left side of road: barn and two ‘frosted’ trees…. that’s “pogonip”, no?
Turns out pogonip, technically, is the icefog that leaves the hoarfrost on the trees [and bushes and wires and fenceposts etc.] so I guess that’s, technically, hoarfrost. Only recently found that out…
The view out of the three windows over the sink — a triptych. I had to look twice to make sure it wasn’t a painting.
We try our best to make everything a painting…some of the time, anyway.