August 5 - Atilt in the World


Finished the detailed edit of second-movement Triple Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, and Harp (17 pages total) + do a 21st-Century Music update --


before heading


ultimately


east towards Sacramento


and south on the severely scenic and eventful corridor of I-5 through


San


Joaquin,


Stanislaus (Westley,


Del Puerto Canyon,


Patterson,


Crow's Landing,


Newman),


Merced


(Pea Soup Anderson's,


Santa


Nella,


Mission


de


Oro,


San Luis Dam),


Fresno


(Panoche and


Joaquin


Rocks),


Kings


(Kettleman


Hills),


Kern


(Lost Hills,


Buttonwillow,


Taft Highway,


Pine Mountain,


the Tehachapi Range,


Wheeler Ridge,


Mettler-Maricopa,


the California Aqueduct,


Grapevine


Grade /


Peak /


Canyon /


Ridge


in


the


setting

sun,


Fort


Tejon,




Lebec


Road),



and


Los Angeles Counties (Frazier Park,


Tejon Pass,


Gorman,


Liebre Ridge,


Hungry Valley,


Black Mountain)... to a late-night rendezvous with John Browning and family beyond San Bernardino: the beginning of the late-summer Southern California outing of 2012.