Fires -- beginning overnight in the high winds -- have broken out in Butte, Lake, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma counties.
Make
the way
south in partially smoky skies,
unwelcomely along the Bay Area's newest toll lane,
to meet the
Music Historians for works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg, and Maurice Ravel --
then out afterwards in
mostly clear conditions for a
two-pronged walk:
first from the Upper Greekish Macedon
East
Alamo
and
Live
Oak
upslope
to
Katania,
then reversing
for north on the former,
past the Central Asian
Tamburlane Junction,
crossing
Windemere,
to
the
foot
of
Tassajara Ridge at the
Oh-so-English Albion and
Romantic Hidden Valley.
Return,
bye-and-bye,
circuituously /
curiously /
intriguingly
under
striking
but
deteriorating
skies --
ambiguity
with
errands and beginning composition re Tropes on Benjamin Britten's Songs from the Chinese, Op. 271: I. The Big Chariot, on this dangerous 190th day of summer, high again 82...
Pleasant Hill, 83
San Ramon, 81
Pinole, 80...
