November 4 - Tilting at Wind Hills


Page five of Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"): II composed, then out across the Central Valley,


up


the


slopes


of the Foothills,


into


the


High


Country


(Burned Ridge,


Yuba


Gap


and


Pass,


the colorful foliage and


early snow of Cisco


and


Big


Bend,


Castle


Peak


Ridge),


over


the


Sierra


Crest,


down


Donner


Canyon in sight of Judah Peak


Granite Chief,


the Namesake


passage


and


up


Martis Valley


and down


into the


Tahoe Basin and


upslope


to


the


Meadows /


Slide Mountain


area and


over


Mt.


Rose


Summit


and downslope for a late-season continuance of the Across-California-and-Beyond Walk,


now downslope on Nevada State 431 from


Sky Tavern Hairpin to the



storied,


ramshackle Reindeer Lodge,


on its own loopish plateau --


backtracking


uphill to


point of origin,


then


losing


elevation


again


into


Reno


Valley,


ablaze in


late afternoon light,


for the


return trip,


after which composition of The Decameron - Third Day: Novel V. "Ricciardo Zima Gives a Horse to Messer Francesco Vergellesi" (3) and beginning pdf for At a Photo Shop, Op. 37, is accomplished.