Celebrating anticipation of better times ahead, from the uncertain past, most recently at https://markalburger2020.blogspot.com/ to this new
though-far-from-certain-but-hopeful stroke-of-midnight future,
with Harriet and a Zooming Cliff,
later joined (after an interval of unaccustomed date-writing, rest, and
an appropriately-overriddden Great Criminal veto of needed govermental funding) by
George, Bette, and Sorrel.
Out for a New-Year's-Day
outing
(always seems auspicious to have decent weather on the 1st of the year,
despite this being in
California's
rainy season),
north up
Pleasants Valley,
Mix
Canyon
into the
Vaca Mountains,
then
back
downslope
to
walk
from
Goat Parking
(via
attempts towards an updated
portrait photo)
to
The Notch, in view of
Creek Ranch,
reversing
to
head
south over Burnt Hills and
Rivera,
northwest on I-80,
loop-de-looping
Lassen,
on the first day of spring,
high down 9 to 53,
beginning composition of
Mass in C Minus, Op. 345 (January 1, 2021),
over President in Waiting (2020),
looking towards the horizon of a hopefully
brighter future...
