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<\/a><\/p>\nrendering the backyard [and more] more than pleasant…<\/p>\n In lieu of the Miles Davis button we find books to reassert the obvious…and the not so obvious<\/p>\n while, as Our Little Town opts for Band-Aids over Infrastructure,<\/p>\n I make a last run through the hills before the weather turns<\/p>\n To be cntd….<\/p>\n Friday morning<\/p>\n East on [“the”] 80, across the Valley<\/p>\n Sacto causeway<\/p>\n Eagle Lakes<\/p>\n and Reno, for lunch, a set of Pyramid Lake prints to the NMA,<\/p>\n then down Virginia, various stops and<\/p>\n out.<\/p>\n A pause before Gerlach at the “High Road”, a road oft taken but not today.<\/p>\n Gerlach; “shinin’ like a diamond in a tarpit”\u00a0 [to paraphrase Terry Allen]<\/p>\n and the Smoke Creek, under water, paraphrasing no one.<\/p>\n Monochromatic mornings as<\/p>\n busy creatures mine the dirt and<\/p>\n L. arrives for her last Spring Break and,<\/p>\n at least for now, there’s this…another day between the cracks.<\/p>\n yippee.<\/p>\n M<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …or somethin’.\u00a0 Anyway spring hung in there for another couple of days rendering the backyard [and more] more than pleasant… In lieu of the Miles Davis button we find books to reassert the obvious…and the not so obvious while, as Our Little Town opts for Band-Aids over Infrastructure, I make a last run through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12515"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12574,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12515\/revisions\/12574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n