May 31 - Dark and Light Siblings

In the local area all day -- what a surprise. 

Lots of catch-up after all the travelling,

highest temp so far this year on this 71st day of summer (98),

composing page 11 of Hamlet,

taking a happy break with Harriet to Joe's Creekside,

returning

scenically freewaywardly to continue a

video

pilgrimage including a thriller, not-particularly-faithful-to-the-original version of

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (Stapleton is not a lepidopterist, but, rather Mortimer's phrenologist and perishes from a bullet delivered by Dr. Watson, rather than being engulfed in Grimpen Mire, where Holmes non-canonically finds himself imperilled -- saved by his sidekick... is this the save-John's-reputation comeuppance as hero of the day, twice!?; additionally Beryl Stapleton dies: for shame!; and there is a Mrs. Mortimer, complete with a ridiculously uncharacteristic seance -- a carry-over from a plot diversion in the 1939 film).  Sometimes, you can tell a DVD by its cover....

Also finish The Britannica Great Books Volume 18: Augustine and begin score-study of Anton Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra: I, in preparation for Opus 6.

May 30 - Together Again

Morning rendezvous with Chris, initially at the doctor's office (last check-up before a personal insurance policy),

after

the

energetic

commute

down 80,

across

37

and

again

southward on 101.

First stop,

hot chocolate,

etc. at the Pancake House,

then

onwards

toward

Mt.

Tamalpais

to

revisit the

Verna Dunshee

Loop,

with views south,

east,

north,

and

west

A

blast

back

down

Pantoll

to

San Rafael

proves premature, as the next scheduled appointment has been postponed, so, with a sudden gift of more time,

head over to

China Camp,

now for another loop: this being Turtle Back, again with fair prospects, including Bullet Hill, Jake's Island,

Mt. Burdell, and

Big Rock Ridge.

Lots of talk --

particularly this past successful first year at Harvard Divinity School and

relationships past, present, and future.

Back to back to the High School,

a cheery farewell,

off to the post office,

where astoundingly, there continue to be financial greetings --

head

up

(after

detours)

the

freeway

to

Novato to schedule

vehicular maintenance,

then reverse course to the

Richmond - San Rafael,

hopping over to the East Bay and thence

north through Contra Costa and

Solano

(interrupted by a piece of Napa),

for an interval

diverting

along

scenic

Abernathy,

strictly-speaking Mankas Corner, and

arguably

typographical roads and suspect sights & sites --

before beelining past the Pyramids,

Poverties, and

North Lagoons to compose more Hamlet (page 10), by now the 70th day of summer locally, high 84.