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.