We made a stormy, moody drive down Hwy 1, once known (in its various sections) as Theodore Roosevelt Highway. Above is the Bixby Bridge, completed in 1932 and joining Monterey to Big Sur. Prior to its construction this 30-mile journey was made over a day or two on sketchy wagon roads over precipitous ridges.
Gratitude to [...]
I found fossilized sand dollar pieces. I cooked a damn fine plum, almond, chicken tagine. I saw vast views from Mt. Tamalpais and Pt. Reyes Lighthouse. I got slightly sunburned. I lost track of time. I got the legs of my pants sea-soaked. I fondled the occipital bone, foramen magnum and cranial cavity of a [...]
A twilight walk at the end of a very fine and changeful week. Much social flurry, many library treasures, experiments in Asian cooking, heartfelt talking, late night reading, slowly, organically finding a rhythm in the new year in our still newish city. Above and below is Lloyd Lake in Golden Gate Park. The black and [...]
The girls had just returned from George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at the New York City Ballet.
…the clouds changing shape overhead, flying apart despite the crows like black tacks, holding them in place.
~Yannis Ritsos
click to expand image. (from left to right) Presidio Park, downtown (over a hill or two), Sutro Tower on Twin Peaks, treetops of Golden Gate park, the Ocean, the Bay, and the hills of Marin.
Above, the mighty Wurlitzer, which made me misty when it rose from the depths of the stage. Below, the mightier Jane Russell, who made the whole theater howl during this incredible man-fondling number: “Doubles, anyone?” “Court’s open!” “Two out of three?”