Thursday, October 28, 2010

DAWN’S EARLY LIGHT II – NETHERWORLD IMPRESSIONS OF COUNTY ROAD 31 AND STATE ROUTE 128

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Sometime, between about 55 and 60, the herd begins to thin itself. And it’s the herd I’m in. I THINK OF THIS as I motor across the valle...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

THE PURGING OF THE POCKET NOTEBOOKS

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FOR DECADES, I have carried small spiral-bound notebooks around in my shirt pocket keeping shopping lists, directions, phone numbers, projec...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

THE ROPE SWING

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ONE SUMMER AFTERNOON we built a rope swing with an old Firestone tire we’d dug out of the creek bank. We had to toss a line over a branch a...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

JUST-PAST-DAWN’S EARLY LIGHT: YOLO COUNTY ROAD 31

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A MID-MORNING NECESSITY in Napa finds me racing westward across the floor of the Sacramento Valley. Seventy-five miles behind me, the sun h...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

OCTOBER INCIDENT AT THE LOCAL SUPER MARKET

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I'll get you, my little pretty... ...and your little dog too! - Margaret Hamilton circa 1939 SIX O’CLOCK on a Monday. Middle part of ...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

OROVILLE-QUINCY HIGHWAY: REVISITING FROG ROCK

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[October 2003] IN QUINCY, CALIFORNIA, where the old Western Auto store used to be, the Oroville-Quincy Highway heads out of town following S...
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Saturday, October 9, 2010

BULLYING: THE STUPID AMONG US

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WHILE DIRECTING TRAFFIC in a crowded school parking lot, the principal halts traffic in one direction so that cross traffic may pass. The w...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

I’LL WRITE GOOD SOME DAY

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“I can teach a fencepost to read, but I’ll be damned if I can teach your son literature.” Mrs. Lundin – commenting to my mother (over a gl...
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Monday, October 4, 2010

WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS: FORESTHILL ROAD - ROBINSON FLAT TO SODA SPRINGS

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FROM A TINY GUARD STATION measuring about 16 by 16 feet, rangers stood watch over the wild and remote Tahoe Forest while assigned to Robinso...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010

BACK TO THE PAST: STATE ROUTE 128 – WINTERS TO NAPA VALLEY

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THE OTHER DAY, I found myself on the road to Napa to visit a hospitalized friend. Interstate 80 makes an efficient route just as Burger Kin...
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