December 31 - Envoi


Begin the January 2013 issue of 21st-Century Music,

 
as Harriet is off via the Vallejo Ferry to San Francisco with Tony, Tisha, and Claire.


Follow


suit,


at


least


insofar


as


out


is


concerned,


by


heading


off


in


the


dramatic


late


afternoon of sun and clouds to the



Apple Store -- configuring the audio on the new MacBook Pro, authorizing the repair of the old computer and following up with questions re transferring data from one to another.


Return home for a peaceful


evening with H, early reports on the East Coast from Bette and George, even more Ken Burns, and musical sketches (Double Piano Concerto: III, 26). Happy New Year to all!  With a new blog tomorrow, inshallah, at markalburger2013.blogspot.com.

December 30 - Light Around the Edges


Still more computer and sketches (Double Piano Concerto: III, 25) and Ken Burns's The National Parks, Harriet out for a bit helping to deck out Tisha's new music studio, late seafoody lunch, then out -- surprise, surprise -- on the Alamo Creek Bike Trail, but reversing course from our initial journey, weeks ago, on Nut Tree Road,


now easterly past Rachel's


Garden


(now in its 12th year after a young teen's tragic and untimely death)


with views back to the Vaca Mountains,

 
and on past Dumbarton Oaks


 (Igor Stravinsky!)


in the fading light to a 



Valley junction.


Recapitulating


this,


we


go


on brief errands, and head back to complete an ABA (ternary!) for the day.

December 29 - Wide Open Spaces


More computer, continued sketching, taking in Ken Burns's The National Parks: America's Best Idea --


in the evening,


out to the


library,


then


again


 (but for the first time in awhile,



specifically since the trip there-and-back to Seattle),


with


Harriet,


on


the


Alamo


Creek


Bike


Trail,


now


from


its identity Road to the


northwestern end, near the inaccessible (or so one still assumes) Lagoon Mountain Pass (from this side, that is) and


back in the


gathering gloom.


Dinner, for the most part as a welcome gift from Bette and George, at Red Lobster (got to have that Admiral's Platter).  More Burns and composition late (Double Piano Concerto: III, 24).