"For
us
in
the
Bay
Area,
the
astronomical
action
starts at 9:05 a.m. and last for about 2 1/2 hours.
The eclipse
will
be
at
its
maximum
at
10:21
a.m.
and
will
end at 11:44 a.m" [San Jose Mercury News].
After the exciting event,
another
walk
on Tassajara Ridge: Compass Point East,
the
Connector
North,
Ridge
to
the
trail
proper,
from
there
a
pull
up
to
Windemere
Divide
West,
eventually
pretty
much
cross-country
downslope,
under a barbed wire fence,
then Bennington South
back to the Park.
Drive
scenically,
spectacularly,
sensuously
toward
the
homeward
front,
on
this
eclipsing
143rd day
of summer,
high down
3 to 88 --
Pleasant Hill, 77
San Ramon, 83
Pinole, 67
-- beginning composition of The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel VIII - One Friend Lies with Another's Wife and continuing that of Variations on Variations of Brahms on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 268 (page 17)...
