Harriet out kibitzing with John Bilotta while the publication-preparation of Psalm 17 ("Hear My Cry") is finished and that of Psalm 18 begun. The iPodPhone and iPod sync up just the new items, but the right leg... that is another matter (what if there is a ringing?).
What indeed? The afternoon mail arrives upon H's returns and she calls to attention a royalty check from ASCAP -- astounding... The tempertures crest 70 (74 actually in some local places) for a second day on this last day of vacation, so yet again past the Wine Guy,
Napa Road Palm
Row (evidently a name for everything),
Sonoma Mountain,
Eldridge (so to speak),
Glen Ellen,
the re-encountering of
Route 12 near
Trinity (as promised),
to Dunbar
(etc.)
Road. From here, the route lies straight, northerly up the Sonoma Valley --
Wildwood Kunde Estate Vineyards (which,
evidently has a
public face
somewhere) and the
Mayacamas Range (with
Hood Mountain and
Sugarloaf Ridge)
to the east
and
Pagani
Ranch
against
the
spurs of the
Sonoma
Mountains
to the west,
cresting an
area
divide
(you never can tell with these fault-slip possibly-graben valleys) and then
down to
the many-faceted
Kenwood
Inn
and
Spa.
Intimate
and
aerial
views
as
the evening falls, going to the sky, followed by a drive north to Oakmont, then south and west via Warm Springs and Bennett Valley Roads (scoping out potential walking routes), through familiar Santa Rosa haunts, and thence roundabout 101, 116 (Frey / Casa Grande), 121, 12, 80 -- a lot of numbers to produce the next numbered compositional page (5) of Song fo Solomon: IV. Pulchra Es ("You Are Beautiful").
