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this is where i want to take her,  Tay.   San Lorenzo canyon.   Just moments away from here.  You would never imagine it's there.   If you look at the lay of the land from either the freeway or even from the frontage road parallel along the freeway,  you would never imagine what magnificance is there.  And these pics show really nothing.   They were taken when i couldn't get close to anything because of the condition of the roads.

 

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Bob Marley on the visor singing Stand UP.  Sonny.  the 1983 Toyota Pickup.   the vehicle that will take us to San Lorenzo Canyon.   Something with the electrical system now that saps energy from the battery.  So everything is connected.  Before i can GO,  can GO to the canyon with Tay,  first the thing with the battery.  There is NO ONE 
THERE     No One.   You are on your Own there.  So before going,  need to figure out the battery thing.  Then.   And also,  the fact that Tay is afraid of the truck.  She won't get IN.  So while i figure out what the deal is with the electrical,  i try different ways to LURE her into the truck.  We worked on that today.  Closer.  Closer.    

It will happen.

 

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Eggplants.  They can be so tattered yet still GO.  Still produce.  over and over,  eggplants.  i love them.

 

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this is New.  Grasshoppers eating young tomatoes????????????????????

 

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this tangle in Nogal's horns this morning.  He looked like a Maypole Princess…his horns all decorated and lovely but ….not a great thing.  Chicken wire and baling string,   from rubbing his deformed horns on something that i wasn't aware of.  But he WAS,  in that moment so elegant and if i wasn't so ……uh….upset by it,  i might have come in for the camera.  I could have.  What was done was done and no harm, really.  But i was startled.  Got to change the "startle".  No need for it.

 

 

 

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14 responses to “a gentle day”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    It’s gorgeous back there…so much color and contour. How deep is it? Protected enough that the roads pose no danger? Gosh, maybe the electrical needs to be rewired. Hmmmmm. Hey don’t you have a cell phone for those all alone journeys. Something you could just keep a couple a bucks on for a call to the highway patrol or cops or something just in case. Mine’s a T-mobile and no contract and it’s off unless I need it. rechargeable battery and I get the cards at local drug stores (cost me 49$ a bunch of years ago. Had to replace the battery only once for 30$. Seems like it would be a good thing. Any way looking forward to the trip whenever it happens…nice sculpture Nogal designed.

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  2. Patricia Avatar
    Patricia

    ooooooooooooooooooooo. into the womb. the colors, shapes, strata. but not a place you might want to be stranded. or is it? funny how this post makes me take note that i have to address the weird sound coming from the front end of my old subaru. a sound like a metal brush rhythmically playing a drum. brakes maybe?
    Tay is so interesting. leery of sonny? who would have thought?

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  3. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    what a beautiful place..i can imagine how beautiful tay would look there..the colors..the stillness and the movement all mixed together..it looks so very far away from everything here
    it is a good idea the cell phone..and even now i am laughing at myself..remembering my own youthful fearlessness in the face of my mom’s caution..the caution that bubbles up in me now the way my recklessness used to…do you have good cell service there..we do not..we don’t have cell service for a good amount of miles around us..someday it is promised..and that was several years ago when we only came here as guests..even when driving to and from places there are so many places..gradually becoming known ..where the service simply stops until we are around or over or throughout the mountains, the valleys
    the valleys here are so very different..deep green caves..i am learning the rocks here..we are in the middle of the green mountains..the taconic range, there are huge amounts of white marble and red slate..and this is just the tip that i am beginning to explore..i look at your landscape and feel so small..it s old here but the scale is so very different
    the grasshoppers here amaze me..right now the air is full of them..they seem to be acrididae oedopodinae…they look like giant moths and fly everywhere..people here tell me there have never been so many of them..they are quite loud and drive the cats crazy..
    we have storm warnings and the wind and rain are filling the morning..not a gentle day at all..but so very glad that you had one…hoping the car is an easy fix..i love that it looks recognizable to me under the hood..may there be many gentle days

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    it is so gorgeous there.

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  5. ² Avatar
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    just read
    smile
    breath
    and love sitting in the evening sun
    here it is 7 o clock
    everything breath …..
    even my cloths
    i think a lot of that breathing
    it is so normal to us
    breath IS … everything
    Grace have a good breath this night
    ALL of you

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    ah the desert , is that an arroyo?
    what about taking a spare fully charged battery just in case?
    &
    Hey Tay, going for rides in the car is great fun!
    good things happen like adventures and walks in the big wide world with lots of good smells!
    even Ariel P Cat loves the van & he’s a pussycat!!

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  7. LAB Avatar
    LAB

    Fear of the truck is what Tey and Rudy have in common-TERRIFIED of the truck…he never got over it. Hope Tey does, the whole world is out there waiting, only a truck ride away.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i have a cell phone that is part of my stuff with Alz. B. When
    her son is not around i am the “family member” that has power of attorney to give directive. But i don’t think that phone, or any
    phone works in the canyon. it’s out of range. and that’s exactly
    why it draws me so. It’s just down the road a bit and over west and under the freeway and some few miles and you are THERE. Takes maybe
    10 minutes. You are somewhere where there is Nothing at All but what you see. Silence. I know when to go and when not…road conditions..snakes….i can go any time at all, snake wise, but not with a young dog. But who knows? She is sensitive. Somewhere in her genetics there might be snake info……..

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yupper…brakes. Take care of it.
    it IS a womb. You see it. a womb of desert. and these pics do it no justice. There is so much more. so much.
    Tay is leery of Everything she doesn’t KNOW. But all she needs to
    do i know it once and then it’s done. I think it’s just that her
    life was so SMALL….Everything is NEW.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i love. LOVE. so much hearing of your GREEN mountains…the
    difference fills me with such wonder,,,,,how Earth is beneath
    what is Above that we see and wander through….learning rocks…
    that is Endless, learning rocks
    Giant Moth Grasshoppers….i wrote a Sound Poem once about Grasshoppers and performed it at a poetry reading…Grasshoppers.
    I remember living in Oregon and needing to drive to work through
    Forests. No road signs. Just THAT ROCK, where you turn.
    I love this.
    and i love you

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it is. it is, so much. it is the inside of the Planet showing
    through to the out side. The scale of it is stunning.
    i need to find the place again where you climb UP…stone steps
    and INTO a cavern…all round and so so holy and sacred. We slept
    there, me the maniac and the kids. Two days. I need to find that again. You just have to wander then you stumble upon it. Tay and i can find it.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Maria…i know that you know breath. yes. Breath IS Everything., yes

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    no…not really, an arroyo. there are arroyo’s to each side. If
    there were ever enough Water, it would become an arroyo but it’s the one single road into the canyon. Bureau of Land Management grades it. Sometimes. Sometimes it’s impassible. You never know. You have to just Go and see how it is.
    She will be Crazy there. Chinche loves it. There it is Endless.
    Truly Endless. like really.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i love that maybe Tay is kin with Rudy. I don’t know if i wrote this or not, but sometimes i talk to her in Navajo sounds. I don’t know but a few words in Navajo but i know the sounds…mostly from
    being at the laundromat with lots of Navajo people from up on the local Rez of Alamo. So…i know the sounds and sometimes i speak these sounds to her and she
    listens
    so maybe…maybe that’s where she was born? Who knows. But i love that she might have this connection to Rudy and sometimes i say to her that i have word of Rudy. She stares at me. I wish you could know her “in person”. She is such an interesting Being. She responds when i ask her politely….and when i say Thank You. Who would imagine that because in some ways she is “rough”.

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