February 6 - Clear-Headed Cloudiness

Finish the March 2009 issue of 21st-Century Music (21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com and soon at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print), then down to St. Mary's again, via the clouds



and colors around the 24 / 680 interchange at Walnut Creek,



and a brief twilight walk on the Lafayette-Moraga Trail, looping back via the L. Community Center, past the ghost gallery forest of Las Trampas Creek. Continue to test the teaching set up, now with a power strip and the document textbook in tow, along with everything else. On the return, a brief adventure with the local law-enforcers (just a warning re a headlight out -- welcome info) and an hour at the DVC lab to work on copies of Purcell Dioclesian for Harriet and record


Saul! Saul!: I. Hannah's Lament, arriving home to produce the first two pages of orchestration of the second movement, re Eli and company.

February 4 - It's All a Mystery

But still we go on. Lukas Foss obituary editing in the morning, then Rex Coeli for the Theoreticians -- dictated, harmonized, sight-sung -- and fine new compositions by Scott Zhang and company. Then back to St. Mary's to pick up key to classroom, and test-drive situation... decide the purchase of a projector is in order. Pick up forms and step out again, briefy, on the Lafayette-Moraga Trail from the Lucille Trailhead view of oaky-skystricken Rheem Hill, to the declivity of



Las Trampas Creek and the Community Center at Lafayette park,



returning with views of the eastern ridges, and visions of page 3 orchestrated for Op. 67 Saul! Saul!