Coffee at Augie's with
John amidst a clientele
studious and
chatty.
On way,
resupply,
before velocity above the Verdugos
up the La Tuna divide, down into the
big deal of Tujunga.
The big cone Douglas fir of
Newhall/Gavin Canyon point the way toward
Violin
Grade and
Ridge,
Canton
Canyon and
Piru Gorge,
firebreaks,
Pyramid Lake,
Hungry and
Peace Valleys,
Gorman
Ridge
Ranch,
and Tejon Pass,
then downslope to Frazier Park,
mysterious Castac,
Tejon
Ridge and
Valley,
plummeting into
Grapevine bound for the
Central
Valley.
Miles past Coalinga, the
grim-fumacious feedlots of Harris Ranch,
Joaquin
Rocks,
Panoche,
Little Panoche,
San Luis Reservoir Forebay (hmm) Dam,
Santa Nella,
a lone ranch,
Newman,
Shane P. Donlan's glory,
Ingram Creek, and
Westley --
the dappled sky presages
Sacramento and the turn west to
Davis, Dixon (with a distant Diablo in view),
and the Vaca Mountains and
Valley.
South, and this should be it, but no, after pinking up the digital projector, off again beyond
Cordelia Junction's Sentinel Peak,
the pastels of the Sulfur Springs
Range,
U.S.A. 40 Today Hill,
the elusive environs of St. John Mine Mountain,
Vallejo Cliffs,
cattails over Refinery Canyon and
Valley, all the way to
Albany Hill,
Emeryville, and scenes from
San Francisco Bay to
another Salon at Tom and Lisa Scola Prosek's, with music of Lisa, Davide Verrota,
Loren Jones, Martha Stoddard, plus
Elijah Rock: X. May (Jezebel and Elijah),
XI. Elijah (God and Elisha), and
XII. King (Benhadad and Ahab).
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra board meeting (with aforementioned composers + David and Erling -- wherein E announces big news re Lynn [standing]) follows at
Erling's, then home. Once again, whew, albeit for different contexts....
