No, haven't wandered off to a Beltane Festival prematurely (the celebration date tends to be May 1) -- just a process of Word Association Football, beginning with a second page of Psalm 17 ("Hear My Cry") publication-prepared, recording Psalm 16 with the Garbage Band (a few glitches re computer -- search ["spotlight"] not finding recent items beyond this past Sunday, iPod not recognized by computer [eventually solved], and iPhone-iPod insists on re-syncing everything -- rather than just recent updates, evidently due to recent software update), followed by writing up
Herb Bielawa's 80th-Birthday Composition Concert for 21st-Century Music (21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com, soon at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print), followed by yet again re-encountering of the
Wine Guy,
making the turns onto 121 and
Sonoma's
Napa Road. Late afternoon on
Leveroni and Arnold leads past views of the Sonoma
and Mayacamas Mountains,
Eldridge's
State Developmental Center (as it is now officially appelated),
Glen Ellen, back to the junction with
12. Proceeding anon, it is but a short distance to the
Trinity
Road
turn (will try better alignment next time),
beginning this walk up the
Sonoma Valley in the company of
turkey farms and
side
roads,
vineyards
and
schools
("not Dumb Bear"),
canyon
turnoffs and
Bed-and-Breakfasts,
including the one at the
Beltane Ranch --
pretty much named after the
Festival, which also brings to mind
Peter Maxell
Davies's
work. Further nonsequitur: truly amazing re this iPhone: in these last hours have been listening to music on it while driving, receiving phone calls legally thanks to the earbud, and -- while walking -- checking the weather,
taking pictures, and utilizing the google maps detailed aerials that are definitely more gainly than carting around hard-copy topos (and mostly, more useful [when working, of course] re vegetation, structures, names of roads, currency [i.e. up-to-dateness]... U.S. Geographical Survey's versions [now mostly available at topoquest.com only advantages seem to remain contour lines [a.k.a. isohypse / isoline / isarithm -- dig it, Guillaume de Machaut!] and state / regional / municipal boundaries.
The setting sun works its own
incandescence over the
Sonoma and
Mayacamas
Mountains -- framed by
oak and
pine --
at the perhaps-endangered intersection (why utilize a mere realtor, after all?) of the school's
namesake
("not Dumb Bear"), and
it is time to return for another page (4) composed re
Song of Solomon: IV. Pulchra Es ("You Are Beautiful").
