Happy Anniversary to Harriet!
And -- after the day's 21st-Century Music work,
Diablo Valley College Theory (Dictation / Board Harmony on Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo: Tu se' morta, plus E and C Minor [Natural and Harmonic], A and E Major, and engaging student compositions),
the
viewful
reverse
commute,
and
errands --
head off together for
an afternoon of dining
and scenic driving,
first
to
Manka's
Corner,
with albondigas,
beer,
chardonay, and
salad
on the
terrace.
After
a
leisurely
tour
of Gordon, Wooden, and Suisun Valleys...
loop
back
towards
Fairfield
and
beyond
the
greening,
cloud-
dappled
Poverty
Hills
to Chevy's for cabernet, guacamole, and Mexican coffee, ending up at a chicken take-out joint, and returning home. Among the evening's activities, the next pages of pdf and composition for Merton Songs, Psalm 88, and The Decameron (respectively pages 20, 4, and 29).
