Subsequent
to
a
library run +
review of Feona Lee Jones's marvelous new album / sheet-music collection and an initial send-out of music for
The Opus Project presents Opus 17 (8pm, Saturday, May 31, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA) --
time
to
head
up
(via
Auburn,
Colfax,
Gold Run,
Bear Valley,
Emigrant
and
Yuba
Gaps,
Castle
Ridge)
and
over
the
Sierra
(Donner
Canyon
and
Peak,
Truckee
Meadows
and
Grade,
snaking
down
the
increasingly
arid
and
snow-
free
slopes
into
Nevada)
for
the
first
time
in
the
2014 Season,
picking
up
the
Pacific
-to-
Virginia-
Range
hike,
now
connecting,
via
Veterans
Parkway
Traffic
Circle,
from
the
395 /
431 /
341
intersection,
north
to
Barcello /
Curti Ranch, back to the car at Cervelo.
From here,
further north,
looking towards future walks,
as far as McCarran East,
running
the
gauntlet,
long
way
back
via
80,
for late-night opera (Antonin Dvorak's Rusalka, 1900) with Harriet,
editing a second page of Psalm 125,
on the 74th day of summer (high 89, 23rd day 80-or-more).
Also a time of acquisitions, including a new real-time recording program,
and films: The Little Mermaid (Walt Disney / Alan Menkin, same basic story as the Dvorak, though, not surprisingly, a much happier ending),
the J.R.R. Tolkien / Peter Jackson / Howard Shore The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013),
and Gary Ross / James Newton Howard Dave (1989)
