September 10 - The View


Having discovered a rogue set of parts that somehow didn't make it to the SFCCO mailing party, decide that there is no more efficient and scenic solution than to hand deliver same to Lisa Scola Prosek today.


And, of course, getting to her country residence takes most the day,


first


via


680


to


the


Diablo Valley College Theoreticians, doing our first triadic harmonization (Conrad Paumann's Mit Ganczem Willem, 1452).


Then


financial


meanderings


and


a


detour to Walnut Creek,


where the old 2009 MacBook receives a long-overdue new battery


(miraculously still in stock) --


a couple of round-trips to


Main Street parking



in the


interval,


followed by


al fresco refreshments at a sidewalk Mediterranean place there,


subsequently


the


jump


to


Sonoma


County:


pastoral


Lakeview


and


Bodega


Roads,


spacious


Route


1


down


towards


Bodega


Bay,


hugging


the


foggy


coast


up


to





the


Russian


River,


plunging


into


its


canyon


and


back again


into the stratus at Jenner,


then


in


and


out


and


up


the


Gulch


to


the


continued


spectacular


sights


of


Meyers


Grade's


slopes,


forests,


boulders,


oaks,


grasslands,


pines,


and ridges--


plus



Fort


Ross


and


Seaview Roads to


Lisa's.


Tom joins us for a delicious Italian dinner (what else?)


and


there's time


for a ritual viewful stroll


to an evergreeny


overlook before heading back on the


long, dark (though often illumined) circuit.  A second page of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1901 Gustav Mahler composed upon return, on this 180th day of summer, high flaming up ten degrees to 99 locally (though another chilly world at Bodega Bay, which only reaches 65) -- 125th at 80-or-more, 64th 90+.