In the South Lake Tahoe area for
Christmas dinner with Harriet, Megan, Flora, Felicia, and Marshal --
the day a beautifully clear,
relatively warm one,
in cozy quarters,
up
the
slopes
of
the
Sierra,
a
brief
stop
in Placerville,
then along the
South Fork of the
American River,
past
Kyburz,
Strawberry,
Lover's Leap,
to
Echo
Summit,
down
the
Grade,
first
to
Megan's.
Shuttle
all
over
to
a
checkpoint,
then walk with Marshall,
down the Boulevard by the Lake,
eventually
rendezvous'ing
across
Stateline at Horizons for a
multi-varied repast and
gifts.
From
here,
check out the
snow situation,
walking
from
Nevada's
casino
row
of
block-
long
highrises
back
into
a
strikingly
lower-
rise
yet
even-
more-
active
California and the South Lake Tahoe
Gondola
Plaza,
with its quixotic fountain
and
quirky
seasonal trappings.
Two
more
walks,
first
back
to
the car,
and
second
including a detour for a
Starbucks New York Times,
then a final pickup to
pick up the trail homeward,
the playlist including
Richard Smert (1398-1479)
Noel (1435)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Christmas Cantata (1705)
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Christmas Oratorio (1735)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Fantasia on Christmas Carols (1912)
Hodie (1954)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Symphony No. 49 ("Christmas"), Op. 356 (1981)
George Crumb (b. 1929)
A Little Suite for Christmas (1980)
Rick Moranis (b. 1953)
Great White North: Twelve Days of Christmas (1981)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Westminster Tropes: XII. Music on Christmas Eve, Op. 42 (1991)
Christmas Carrels, Op. 186 (2010)
Upon return, compose page 22 of The Decameron - Fourth Day: II and take in a gift from Flora, with Harriet. on a very romantic eve.
