January 14 - Beautiful World, Sometimes...


34th Inner Coast Range North Walk,


an


idyll on


Yolo County 22


northeast from Picket Ranch,


past


Palm


Orange


Cactus


Compound,


Buzzard Eucalyptus,


various peacocks and turkeys,


alongside


Lamb Valley Slough


to


the


Cliff.


Afterwards,


pay


our


respects


at


Capay


Cemetery,


and


return


to


the


local


area,


where


earlier a little


nature-red-in-tooth-of-claw


witnessed in


two arboreal squirrels


duking it out for the


attentions of a lady in the treetops.


Yes, perhaps life is not much more than this, composing 2017, Op. 261: V. Phone Calls and as well as finishing 24 Tone Preludes, Op. 260: VII. Westron Wynde (6 pages total), on the 13th day of spring, high 55 (56 in Winters)...