Last night the moon rose over the ridge. It’s a miracle, what with all the harm humans are doing to the planet, that the full moon still rises, is still in orbit. I went down to the beach and got in the ocean a few days after getting back. Got under water long enough to feel the chill get to my bones, and voila! I was tuned back into home turf (surf).
Rain clouds this morning, it was blue grass music driving in along the ocean, program called “A Banjo Friday,” Flat & Scruggs: Your Love is Like a Flower / Ned Lubernick: Owed to Earl, great banjo…
the waves are slow and full coming into the beaches, sort of luscious, a hearty n/w swell…
Doyle Lawson, white gospel, I’m finding Joy in My Saviour, beautiful singing / Ralph Stanley, The Girl From Greenbriar Shore — I don’t know what it is he has, but he has it. On one level it’s a pretty thin voice, but he does something with the notes and it comes out unique…
Then John Hammond doing Nadine, a great song (one of the highlights of the Stones Get Yer Ya-Yas album) Nadine, honey, it that you?
Next time you cross this magnificent bridge, check out the corbled designs of each cross-strut. There’s a great book called The Gate by John van der Zee, which describes the true lead designer of the bridge mathematician and Greek scholar Charles Ellis, not Joseph Strauss, as it was formerly thought.
Heard a great new Bonnie Raitt song with a cooking band as I got into North Beach…
Awesome detailing that we don't see anymore, built in the mid 1930's too! How has that bridge stood up during the big earth quakes? It's must have seen some doozy's since then.
Craig.
Glad to hear you're a Bonnie Raitt fan.
Lloyd, check out the photo exhibit at the Bolinas Museum before it leaves. There are some great platinum prints of the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin Civic Center that become beautiful abstract visions — gorgeously printed. http://www.bolinasmuseum.org/current_exhibitions_photography.html>