April 5 - Deep State of Mind

Further delights of the Southern California Highlands -- Lake

Gregory,

Rim

of

the

World

(views

to

Mts. San Gorgonio and San Jacinto,

past

Santa's

Village and

Heaps Peak,

backward glances at Mt. San Antonio and

San Gabriel Valley),

Big

Bear

Lake

(the

long

contour up and down the grade to the

Dam

and

Boulder Bay),

38 beyond the heady heights of Onyx Summit,

plummeting

down Santa Ana Canyon,

contouring around Angeles Oaks,

into

into

Mill

Creek,

down

the

Narrows,

around

into

the

Yucaipa

area,

up

to

Oak

Glen,

for

a

late

lunch

at

the

Steakhouse

&

Saloon,

further

up

and

roundabout

past

Los Rios Ranch,

into the

spectacular chaos of

Little San Gorgonio and

Wildwood Canyons,

Beaumont,

and

on

to

pick up

John Browning for

appetizers / drinks in San Bernardino. 

20th day of summer, high again 75...

Crestline, 70
Big Bear, 63
Calimesa, 73

April 4 - Hi(gh) Country

Heady

adventures

in

Kern

and

San Bernardino Counties -- via 58,

395

(the

sere

Mojave

beyond

Adelanto

Junction),

15

(up

Cajon Pass and

down into the Amphitheatre,

past Mormon Rocks,

and

onward),

to 138

(Crowder Canyon

Badlands,

Summit

Valley,

Silverwood

Lake). 

19th day of summer, high 75

Bakersfield, 85
Boron, 76
Crestline, 68

April 3 - Whirling Heights

Spring Trip to Southern California -- via Alameda, San Joaquin,

Stanislaus (Del Puerto Canyon,

Bird's Landing,

Newman),

Merced,

Fresno,

Kings,

and

Kern Counties.  18th day of summer, high 79 (80 in Bakersfield)...

April 2 - Let X = 10

60th-Birthday

with Harriet and Megan, and Non-Taxing Non-Toxic II (8pm, April 15, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA) yet to come...

17th day of summer, high again 82,

orchestrating system 14 of John Cage's The Perilous Night: VI, as Op. 265...

April 1 - Surprise!

So, turns out Igor Stravinsky's Opus 5 is found

(not the case back when The Opus Project presents Opus 5 was presented in May of 2013).

Duly aquired, and an intriguing piece!

A bit of heroic home-maintainance, +

orchestration re page 13 John Cage The Perilous Night: VI, as Op. 265.  16th day of summer, highest temperature of year at 82.