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.