As the world celebrates the extended
Winter Solstice Holiday season,
we bid a
Christmas adieu (having had our celebration on the Eve) to Tisha and Claire, bound for Seattle,
driven initially to Sacramento International Airport by Harriet and Megan.
Call George, Bette, Sorrel Ann, and Chris to wish them a Merry, Merry -- then, after an interval of blissful recuperation for the returning residents,
head out on the
coldest day of the year --
a second wintery one,
high 46
(44 in Winters)
for the
23nd Inner Coast Range
North
Walk,
now on
Yolo County Road
25 West
from 87
to 86A.
north to
23 West,
squaring around ultimately to
505 South
under darkening skies,
to begin composition of
24 Tone Preludes: IV. Sound Perfumes...
