tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888061792145245172024-03-12T21:43:13.220-07:00Seattle to San Francisco May 2015Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-3017977209789959772015-06-18T22:16:00.001-07:002016-01-08T17:11:16.846-08:00for a special treat, exit via the San Gregorio General Store<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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heading for Half Moon Bay, south, down the coast from the city.<br />
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where we saw the carpark overflowing at <a href="http://www.samschowderhouse.com/" target="_blank">Sam's Chowder House</a> and took that as a good sign.<br />
Service lugubrious but then we were not rushing; food good—California-populist-bulky rather than nouvelle-cuisine-dainty.<br />
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We turned left from the coast highway in Half Moon Bay, but still needed to spend some time out in the air not in the airport. In this wood carving establishment a cheerful young lady whose sister is doing a PhD in Australia gave us clear and unambiguous intructions: go back to the coast road, continue south to San Gregorio, go to the General Store.<br />
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So we did as recommended and found it. This is Ms Google's street view photo. </div>
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If we had found this place quite a lot earlier, we might have stayed quite a lot longer.</div>
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This, <a href="http://www.sangregoriostore.com/" target="_blank">from their website</a>, seems reasonably comprehensively accurate.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #20124d; color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; text-align: left;">Saloon, lanterns, seeds, no television, U.S. Post Office, cast iron cookware, aspirin, advice, wines fine to rot gut, western and work clothing, groceries, hardware, bullshit, toys, cowtechnician hats, international beers, beeswax, cheesecloth, piano in-tune, books (literature, poetry, gender and environmental politics), homemade sandwiches, diapers, crockery, weather analysis, coal hods, raccoon traps, tequila (18 flavors), posters, cards, tee shirts, buttons, candles, rain gear, organic garlic, apples and butternut squash in season, live music (Irish R&B, bluegrass, original everything else).</span></blockquote>
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We alas could not stay for the music, we did not need the diapers.<br />
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But I spent quite a while among the books. I bought a copy of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=B._Traven" target="_blank">mysterious B Traven</a>'s novel <a href="http://wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/rebellionofthehanged.htm" target="_blank"><i>Rebellion of the Hanged </i>(nice student web site)</a><i>,</i> set in Mexico just before the 1910 revolution. It proved to be readable on the plane, an unusual attribute for me, the nearest thing in its terrifying straight reporting style that I had read to Upton Sinclair's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=The_Jungle" target="_blank">The Jungle</a></i>. On which I reflected while reading Traven, on the plane from San Francisco, wondering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Upton_Sinclair#Political_career" target="_blank">what might have happened if Upton Sinclair been elected governor of California in 1934</a>. <a href="http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/upton-sinclair-meets-franklin-d.html" target="_blank">Screwed by FDR, as I now find nicely recorded by Greg Mitchell</a>. And discussed more thoroughly in <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/upton-sinclairs-epic-campaign/" target="_blank"><i>The Nation.</i></a><br />
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Do find a moment to visit the <a href="http://www.sangregoriostore.com/" target="_blank">San Gregorio General Store</a>. If you have a heart.Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-43667286392881466282015-06-18T13:30:00.000-07:002015-06-19T02:16:44.268-07:00Marcia Donohue's remarkable and inspiring garden in BerkeleyOur airbnb host in Berkeley very kindly offered to see if we could visit <a href="http://www.recreatingeden.com/index.php?pid=8&season=03...30&episode=29" target="_blank">the garden of Marcia Donohue, just round the corner. A valuable history here</a>. And with permission, we went and visited the garden in late afternoon light.<br />
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There are decades of work here, and work continuing. Note in the photos how natural and created forms are integrated. As are chickens. <a href="http://suburbanfoodforest.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Inspiration for our own gardens</a>, which are still comparatively young. We are encouraged especially by the intense and subtle use of what is quite a small garden space.<br />
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and then, walking along the street, this amazing sight, a tea tree, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca_quinquenervia" target="_blank">Melaleuca quinquenervia</a></i>, or rather two of them, which someone had in the past twisted together. An Australian tree gone mad in Florida, see link above.<br />
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-69145034404330168252015-06-18T12:47:00.001-07:002016-10-25T04:02:21.598-07:00back from the real worldWe had been in Mexico and we had been buying and eating fresh foods.<br />
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and then on the United Airlines flight out of Mexico, U.S. snacks were available... but this recipe was not enticing, no more enticing than the fatty blobs which hold thrall for some Mexicans...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It seems possible they made an error.<br />I hope they made an error but I fear for consequences of an error if someone goes anaphylactic on shellfish.<br />It says chicken. <i>I can't find the chicken.</i> I can find a tiny bit of asparagus near the end.<br />A lot fishy things, some sand (aka silicon dioxide) but hey, "<i>Where's the chicken, Sir?</i>"</td></tr>
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and then in the street in Berkeley, views of major commodities in major vehicles<br />
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It was evident as we travelled around that food quality, fresh food rather than fast food consumption, was related to geography and affluence. As is body definition and obesity.<br />
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Somehow we did not photograph the huge pillar signs for fast food by highways but Ms Google's camera truck offers this example, one of many, on Highway 80 from San Francisco to Sacramento. There is of course a similar diet-health divide in Australia, but it is posted so much more clearly, the issues of overall body size and obesity are so much more evident in the USA. The USA is further down a shared track...<br />
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I am embedding here a relevant video lecture from UC San Francisco's Rhonda Patrick on diet and lifestyle and their impact on ageing and the brain. Again one must note that this comes from San Francisco, so geographically close to the sign above, but socioeconomically so far away... There is also mystique built around fast foods as surely habituating, or infatuating, chemical mixes in them that cause resistance to diet shift to the fresh.<br />
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We are not perfect in our approach to diet at home, but <a href="http://suburbanfoodforest.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">we do seek to grow some of our own food and in doing so maintain mental focus on healthy food and exercise</a>.<br />
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On 11 June 2015 we drove out of town to Sacramento and from Sacramento turned south towards Stockton...<br />
but then had the audacity to turn off the GPS and duck down to the Stone Lake Wildlife Refuge and then to Courtland, a village on the Sacramento River.<br />
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There are big issues for the future: a tangle of law, regulation and politics, demands for water and agriculture, rules for the protection of the environment and pressures of human needs. <a href="http://www.westerncity.com/Western-City/July-2013/The-Bay-Delta-Conservation-Plan/" target="_blank">This main article and at links down that page</a>, provide a good introduction, or it did for me. <br />
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Download a pdf <a href="http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1182/pdf/11Delta.pdf" target="_blank">history and analysis of continuing subsidence and management issues, from University of California (Davis) here</a>.<br />
More information <a href="http://science.kqed.org/quest/2010/12/16/the-unique-geometry-of-the-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://science.kqed.org/quest/delta-map/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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I have assembled this little film. It reaches a climax at the vertigo-promoting but little-known <a href="http://bata.mtc.ca.gov/bridges/antioch.htm" target="_blank">Antioch Bridge</a>.<br />
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This is a quick and personal film. I have embedded a longer documentary of importance below. Please watch!<br />
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As I recorded film clips, these CDs were playing through the sound system of the rental car.<br />
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<a href="http://fishingmusic.com/fishingmusic.htm" target="_blank">Fishing Music, a collection of acoustic folk, blues and swing</a>, purchased from the Thrift Shop in Falls City, WA (the shop down behind the firearms shop on the main street)<br />
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<a href="http://www.unseenworlds.net/releases/satie-slowly" target="_blank">Philip Corner's <i>Satie Slowly</i></a> purchased at Amoeba Music, Haight St San Francisco.<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-37411631545555332682015-05-26T21:55:00.002-07:002015-05-26T21:55:48.715-07:00Liz's reflection on itStill miles of San Francisco to blog and blog, but now in Mexico City with its huge energy, <a href="http://ongoingtomexico.blogspot.mx/" target="_blank">already a backlog here</a>!<br />
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Liz published a comic reflecting on our holiday on Monday 25 May at <a href="http://www.thingswithout.com/" target="_blank">thingswithout</a><br />
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In <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/neighborhoods/sf/haight/" target="_blank">Haight-Ashbury</a>, which has a big place in modern history, along with other revolts against various things in various places from Beijing to Berkeley, Prague to Paris, in 1968.<br />
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A place of vision, visions, some hallucinations and more.<br />
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Some remember, some can't, some pursue; while all the world's young and affluent benefit and have no great sense of battles before.<br />
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The right to turn things over is a scary and elusive thing these days.<br />
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We risk failing to realise that futures-away-from-stoopid depend on what statisticians call 'outliers', those variants that for them shoud'n be included, they get <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsorising" target="_blank">Winsorised</a>. Variants, outliers, yells in day and night, outrage urgencies: their uprising and existence enable the general throng of people to swing wider, dream bigger, go further, find new happinesses and self-fulfilment... and also out there somewhere mutual goodwill and caringnesses. There is the wide end, the fix-worlders, there is the absorbed-just-here end. You can't have one without the other.<br />
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There's a lot of style around. We met a beautiful Nigerian family come from Lagos to celebrate their US resident son's graduation with a degree in urban planning.<br />
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We coffeed in a wonderful family run Armenian hole in the wall. Shot a little breeze with our hosts about my love of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Saroyan" target="_blank">William Saroyan</a>'s stories in times past.<br />
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and Helen went in pursuit of that elusive LP by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAVfUw3fiY" target="_blank">Ray Rivamonte</a>, one of which, she alleges, was once seen in an American record shop.<br />
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The old port and an old back yard. Places have a 'look'.<br />
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We were enjoined not to take photos in the <a href="http://www.clarkemuseum.org/" target="_blank">Clarke Museum</a>, but can assure you it's a very special place with the energies of staff and volunteers seeming to breathe the spirit of the founder, the history teacher Cecile Clarke, who foresaw a great future for an old bank building.<br />
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Up there on the wall she presides. There are excellent displays of European settlement life and breathtaking examples of Native American crafts in a whole wing of the building. Do not miss the place.<br />
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But the road down the northern northern coast (many refer to 'northern California' meaning north of Disneyland, Hollywood and Los Angeles) changes dimensions and perspectives. Take all them thar, it says, put 'em on this shelf over here and let me show you something... and something... and something and something and something... It places itself in another category.<br />
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Gualala was in Mendocino County, just north of the border of Sonoma County, the Gualala Country Inn B&B very comfortable.<br />
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Sonoma County sonorously asking: "You want cliff edges, you want silver edged seas? Easy. How about cows? You like cows, cliffs, shiny seas? Right-eo then, comin' up!"<br />
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thank you Sonoma, that was very nice, perhaps you can sit down now and we can see some of the other girls' photos.</div>
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My companions have become thick as thieves, Liz has fallen back into a free-spirit laugh she adopted so long ago, borrowed, stolen from Eddie Murphy in <i>Trading Places — </i>catch it at 40 second in this clip....<br />
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A manner of laughing explored around the time <a href="http://lizargall.com/" target="_blank">Liz</a> wrote <i><a href="http://aplaceof.info/stories/stories/longlegs.html" target="_blank">Long Legs the Baby Grarf</a> ... </i>I realise, recalling that story just now, that it bears very much upon what we have been doing this past week. This thus typed by the author at about age 6.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">One suny morning whan Long Legs was wallcing throo the forust when SUDLY she hured a cracling sound and out came a MONSTER it was gray and ringcly. Long Legs ran away. Don’t run awaye.I’m just a big elafant said the monstr. Ok said Long Legs. lets go exploring said the elefant. But were shood we start? said Ling Leg Ovre ther said the elifant poyting to a cave. Ok said Long Legs.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(word)" target="_blank">Eureka!</a></i> </span>An excellent name for a town in California.<br />
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At the time of Mexican independence, wrested from Spain some time after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grito_de_Dolores" target="_blank">El Grito de Dolores</a> in 1810, the massive silver deposits of Mexico had been severely depleted and with flight of capital, trade and many Spaniards, economic decline followed, a major contributor to upheavals in Mexico and conflict with the big trading and lending nations.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" target="_blank">Washington had wanted California for quite a while, and got it for $15,000,000 at the end of the Mexican war in February 1848</a>, the United States' ground-breaking beginning to war on foreign territory.<br />
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In the previous month, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush" target="_blank">gold had been discovered in California</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_%28word%29" target="_blank">Eureka</a>!<br />
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Back to the story? Please?<br />
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Eureka California is just south of Arcata.<br />
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The ladies in one thrift shop (no photo, sorry) in Arcata had spoken with a measure of despair of the greater drug problems in Eureka. These towns as noted have problems of economic decline, struggle, arrival and presence of people of modest means and perhaps some less warm designs, over time.<br />
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But their town centres are possessed of character, pride, imagination.<br />
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We arrived in Eureka a few minutes after packing out of the mini-house in Trinidad.<br />
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After ordering breakfast in the Black Lightning Motorcycle Cafe...<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">... and then, turning round, your teeth and brain fly out as gob-smacked and eye-whacked you find yourself confronted by the most, most astonishing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C5%93il" target="_blank">coup d'oeil</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: left;">- sounds ok to me.</span></span><br />
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An experience that reminded me of <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-train-may-hide-another/" target="_blank">Kenneth Koch's poem 'One Train May Hide Another'</a>. Try it even if you are a poem-avoider. Koch is good.</div>
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I will get back to record separately two special things in Eureka, when I have faster broadband than at the moment. We did get away, drive on, just a bit before lunch.<br />
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Oh just one more photo, <i>or two</i>, to explain the wanderer's dilemma.<br />
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You step out from the wonderful <a href="http://www.clarkemuseum.org/" target="_blank">Clarke Museum</a> – in a bank bought for the purpose in the 1950s by a determined history teacher, Cecile Clarke, for museum purpose – and when done with the photo you realise a pedestrian has been patiently waiting for you to finish, with a warm smile. And he, it turns out, works developing rehabilitation programs for disabled Native Americans. This deserved at least a half-hour discussion, but neither of us had it.<br />
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oh and another interesting person was Alfred, volunteer in the museum. He was cleaning the glass on tops of displays, admiring all those things thereunder which his work brought more clearly into sight.<br />
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Alfred retains a great hatred of the communist government of China.<br />
"I don't understand, we didn't understand, how could it be.<br />
The Japanese army took our food<br />
but the communists killed anyone who disagreed with them.<br />
They killed their own people..."<br />
Fleeing to his uncle in Hong Kong aged 17 in 1952, moving to America in 1966<br />
(perhaps because at that moment the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution<br />
rattled down to the Hong Kong border)<br />
a Chinese restaurant here in town for 25 years before retirement.<br />
I asked about local appreciation of Chinese food.<br />
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-72223482377855049722015-05-23T12:59:00.000-07:002015-05-23T13:34:14.728-07:00and while I blogged, Helen went to the dogs. The dogs will have to pay taxes surely.Two blocks from our place (blue blob on map) in the Outer Richmond District this Memorial Day weekend is Ocean Beach. Thither went Helen with camera, while I added to this blog.<br />
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The temperatures this weekend are 53 to 55F = 11 - 13c. Water temperature ditto. So the Sutro baths not in contemplation. Also not in contemplation as they are today not as they were when my father was born in 1906. Some sense of affinity hereabouts inasmuch as my father's father's stepfather's mother and stepfather were married in San Jose (Silicon Valley) in about 1873.<br />
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On the main beach, the world was out with its dog. The SFGate website reports that:<br />
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This wide shot of the Ocean Beach is full of dogs, dogs, dogs, though hard to see, mostly smaller dogs, <i>click to enlarge</i>:<br />
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These dogs will have to get to work and pay taxes for the ageing humans.<br />
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In corners under cliffs there are love letters and related hieroglyphics freshly engraved in the sand. Doubtless the dogs provide comfort zones for hellos. We do not know to what extent these particular dogs have contributed to these fresh between-tides romantic inscriptions. Do your own fieldwork. For the quantum physical experience, bring your dog.<br />
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On the walk beside the beach, many older women speaking Russian. One woman from Connecticut, here briefly for her son's graduation, suggested that San Francisco's hills might provide excellent income for hip surgeons. However it was <a href="http://unmese.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/snow-continuing-at-midday.html" target="_blank">Helen's observation five years ago in Soriano nel Cimino, a hilltop village north of Rome, that people who walk up and down the town daily seem very robust in later years</a>.<br />
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-78252080487728659612015-05-23T11:41:00.002-07:002015-05-23T13:05:13.191-07:00Eco-conscious mini-house, Trinidad CaliforniaThe towns of the far north California coast were hives of industry when access was by sea, then came rail, then rail left and economies wilted. With alternative culture came new people. As in many seaside places in Australia some of these towns are also places for marginal survival of people scraped from city life by adversity. You drive the Avenue of the Giants and see also economic difficulties with recent-years' tourist decline and the preference from DVD/MP3/heyyoume-implanted car passengers for two dimensions over three dimension and tourist artefact over majestic stunning reality.<br />
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To begin at the beginning, to set the mood, to start the magic - you can watch entranced and/or let Joni play for you while you go down the page. The creatrix of everything I love in modern music, sadly unwell as I write. I never knew before recently, in my awe, of she of my age, that she had had polio and such other problems to overcome, to shove aside, disregard in creating serenities, mysteries and swooningly beautiful things.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTo3VRi_DXKHszQMQMvOOLPxgyT9RO_q-Z29mjgCsc1RpZJmUWp9Yq-8sd5xXmPQ1y5ip75WZTMgsuvc-WhtakE1y8pYwU_n5_OIrQ0AeoY_8aXpYAXBLfuXTmUlnD8JFJmJoUOdb-I9b/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-05-23+at+8.45.06+am.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTo3VRi_DXKHszQMQMvOOLPxgyT9RO_q-Z29mjgCsc1RpZJmUWp9Yq-8sd5xXmPQ1y5ip75WZTMgsuvc-WhtakE1y8pYwU_n5_OIrQ0AeoY_8aXpYAXBLfuXTmUlnD8JFJmJoUOdb-I9b/s320/Screen+Shot+2015-05-23+at+8.45.06+am.png" width="152" /></a>I deliberately headed this blog entry with the same words as <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/3605329" target="_blank">Karin's airbnb listing for her wonderful place in Trinidad</a> to help Ms Google find it. We stayed at Karin's mini-house, close to but very private from her forest-wrapped home on the nights of 18 and 19 May 2015. It's worth sharing our pleasure.<br />
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We have family histories of living and building in rural places but you don't need to have such history to enjoy this place. Indeed if you've never been to such a situation but have a tiny hanker this is a wonderful introduction to small house life and to the experience being surrounded by the air and earth of trees and other plants as you sit, as you eat, as you dream at night.<br />
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I now sit in San Francisco morning having just read <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/05/20/4236600.htm" target="_blank">this science commentary on how trees communicate, via gases in the air and most importantly with chemical exchanges via strings of mycorrhizal fungi in the soil</a>.<br />
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All you ever felt about the magic of being among trees, plants, flowers, hands in decent soil has a real chemical base. Having been certified many years back as an organic farmer and having a permaculture design certificate, I have a distaste for woowoo muck-and-magic thinking of too many doctrinaires. Instead I get a warm glow from the real science as well as a measure of fury at the way chemical agricultural and thick-skull forestry blindly ignore science. The web of ecology demands understanding not giggling or dancing round garden gnomes. We are in the ecology, we go with it, contribute to it... or we die.<br />
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Looking at airbnb options in northern California the majority seemed to be cosy firesidely hey-see-waves-through-my salty-windows kinda places with obese-ish prices varied by the size of the sea-glimpse. There are a few really interesting places far into the big woods, offering perhaps deeper experience in self-sufficient situations but we had limited time, modest geographical knowledge and a rental car, so it suited us to have this fabulous 'taster' three minutes from Highway 101, approached on bitumen and with <i>everything around us</i> - sea, forest, village and the magic of the towns of Arcata and Eureka: the latter a huge risk when you are supposed to be driving way way on down the coast and you stop for breakfast and <span style="font-size: xx-small;">leave about lunchtime. :-)</span><br />
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We were very glad we'd booked two nights at Karin's. Being urban or town people in bigger home spaces you spend the first hours here with elbows bopping a bit, disconcerted by the need to turn around sooner and more often than expected. A kitcheny jostle. The second day and night your elbows eventually get it, your brain gets it, your nostrils and lungs get it, your heart steadies and life expands and you smile and say ah-ha. You knew when you first looked around in this small house that you had every conceivable amenity (except TV, if you call that an amenity) with books of so many different serious genres, with Karin modestly and helpfully on hand with local knowledge of both invaders and native American peoples and ready with well thumbed photostatted additional reading... if you can bring yourself to such from sitting or wandering quietly immersed in the bucolic. We could have stayed a week or more, read some books, write some stories, live the life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A house a tiny bit bigger than the old greenhouse,<br />
an accretion of this bit and that bit over time, <br />
as happens in the country and and in life<br />
— in the corner of the orchard, edge of forest.<br />
Very sensible to have the bath/toilet opening onto the porch rather than into the room.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fifteen minutes away in Arcata, [ah-KAY-tah] where the dogs are learned and employed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and men talk <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_golf" target="_blank">disc golf</a> not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld" target="_blank">Discworl</a>d</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every day on this trip, this time in the lovely <a href="http://www.briobaking.com/cafe_main.php" target="_blank">Cafe Brio</a>, Arcata, Liz does this most-most romantic internet-feasible thing<br />
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She had the chicken and mushroom pie.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and I had the Reuben, good pastrami on house bread with light and delicate sauerkraut.<br />
"How'dya like the Reuben?" asked the lovely young woman from the counter, rushing by.</td></tr>
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Here too I came upon what has to be the most thoughtful and interesting free paper anywhere, <i>Greenfuse. </i>I'm taking it home.<br />
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The energy of this town, its verve and muscularity too, are contributed to by <br />
the presence of the northern campus of one of the great state universities, <br />
<a href="http://www.humboldt.edu/" target="_blank">Humboldt University</a> (the California one, not the Berlin one) which says of itself (see that link)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;">You'll be part of a campus known for its longstanding commitment to </span><a href="http://humboldt.edu/green" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #25551b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">social and environmental responsibility</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;">. And when you graduate, you'll have more than just a degree <br />– you'll have the skills to go far in life and make your community better.</span></span><br />Nice.</span></td></tr>
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<i>Greenfuse</i> comes from a few minutes south, Garberville.<br />
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Here on a Facebook page screenshotted below I found something about the editor/author Kathy Epling... her blogs of <a href="http://outsidethewindows.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">prose here</a> and <a href="http://jarvenpa.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">poetry here</a>. Wild country miracles.<br />
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Someone once said to me as I set out to travel: "I hope you find what you're looking for." To which I replied: "Oh no, how boring that would be. I hope for things unimagined." <br />
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... Found. Once again, always different.<br />
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Keep your eyes and hearts open. Please. Feed your innocence.<br />
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-49293299990767919082015-05-23T09:56:00.001-07:002015-05-23T09:56:27.683-07:00Seattle: back last week, a little moment, 320 Something StreetI found a missing moment among photos.<br />
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On a rainy afternoon we drove wandering around the square-grid-planted-roundabouts world of Greenwood uphill from Green Lake Seattle, shamelessly stopping in the drizzle to photograph the microworld of people's free expression in their front gardens and house fronts.<br />
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While so doing Ernesto (Ernie) San Miguel came home from work and with that strength of ex-military gentle purpose said hello in that way which says hello-would-you-mind-explaining-why-you-are-taking-pictures-of-my-house. The answer was simple. The house was beautiful and Ernie happily posed, invited us in to coffee (we said no thank you, could not impose) and told us proudly that the house had been in family for generations. He himself had come from Texas with the military, his family Mexican from when Texas was Mexican, from before the first Norte Americano war on foreign soil from a time when Mexico included what are now parts of the USA bigger than the whole of present Mexico. <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war" target="_blank">Well, Ernie didn't speak of all that like that, I just thought I'd drop it in, you can continue pursuing that subject here</a>.<br />
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So Ernie came to Seattle and married a celtic MacDougall, and it's the MacDougall house in front of which we begin this set of pictures of Ernie's place on a foggy rainy afternoon in May 2015. Thank you for your gentle smiles and hospitality Ernie.<br />
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-45029088925173172532015-05-22T12:36:00.004-07:002015-05-22T16:14:29.893-07:00extraordinaryI am days behind. It's San Francisco Friday and still to record from Monday night onward coming down the California coast with two nights in Trinidad, one night in Gualala and so much between. Long days, huge impressions. Here just a few introductory splashes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outside the Speakeasy in Fort Bragg: <br />
I said "That must be a Labradane" <br />
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Coffee Porter from the <a href="http://www.dustbowlbrewing.com/" target="_blank">Dust Bowl Brewing Company, Turlock</a><br />
Brewmaster Don Oliver</td></tr>
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in the <a href="http://trilliummendocino.com/" target="_blank">lovely restaurant Trillium</a> in picture postcard Mendocino.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I speak for myself. Don't you say a word about my make-up. <br />
It took me all morning, after I hit my head on the fridge.</td></tr>
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I live in the Outer Richmond District of San Francisco.<br />
My slave surfer guy is in this gym here.<br />
Do come near and feel how nice I am.<br />
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By the way, that object which has caught your eye...<br />
that's my rawhide bone I'm supposed to like<br />
but which is less interesting than thou.</td></tr>
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-90382908600170735392015-05-19T22:28:00.000-07:002015-05-22T11:59:18.272-07:00Monday 18 May: Road trip, Portland to Trinidad CAWe undertook a one day 400 mile drive from Portland down to Trinidad, a village in the redwood forest country of northern California—very much so that we would be stay two nights in Trinidad and dawdle about, rather than drive, drive, drive daily.<br />
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The ground we covered like Caesar's Gaul, only entirely different, was divided into three parts.<br />
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In our case, firstly by freeway from Portland flat and straight south to Eugene, through the Willamette Valley, one of the most fertile places in the world. Lee had described it well for us in Portland. I need not seek to quote him accurately, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willamette_Valley" target="_blank">the story is there also in Wikipedia</a>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">A massively productive agricultural area, the valley was widely publicized from the 1820s as a 'promised land of flowing milk and honey'. It became the destination of choice for the oxen-drawn </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_train" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px; text-decoration: none;" title="Wagon train">wagon trains</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"> of emigrants who made the perilous journey along the Oregon Trail in the 1840s–1880s...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">Much of the Willamette’s fertility is derived from a series of massive ice-age floods that came from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Missoula" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px; text-decoration: none;" title="Lake Missoula">Lake Missoula</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"> in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px; text-decoration: none;" title="Montana">Montana</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"> and scoured across </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Washington" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px; text-decoration: none;" title="Eastern Washington">Eastern Washington</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">, sweeping its topsoil down the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River_Gorge" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px; text-decoration: none;" title="Columbia River Gorge">Columbia River Gorge</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">. When floodwaters met log-and-ice jams at </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalama,_Washington" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px; text-decoration: none;" title="Kalama, Washington">Kalama</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;"> in southwest Washington, the water caused a backup that filled the entire Willamette Valley to a depth of 300 to 400 feet (91 to 122 m) above current sea level.</span></blockquote>
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with such little effort on the freeway one arrives in handsome Eugene, which is something of a university town, also a town with significant counter-culture history. My mentor on the broad spectrum of health issues <a href="http://raypeat.com/" target="_blank">Ray Peat is somewhere there</a>, though we did not have the audacity or the time to seek him out. </div>
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I now get to something you will have to visualise as I was sufficiently stunned to forget to take a picture. We had been parked in, six inches behind the Mammoth Maxima, a foot in front. It's moments like this you need a Seattle woman with you. Liz could see that the car in front was a Car2Go, that it was thus of course a smart car and that (of course, again) it occupied only a modest part of the parking space it was sitting in. So she got her Cars2Go card, swiped the window device, jumped in, added her pin number, drove forward three feet for a price of one dollar and came back to our car. She had preceded this little show of clever by saying "Would you like me to move the Smart Car?" I had of course been most impressed by her fitness arising from gym and roller derby and had simply said "Yes please," and waited to be impressed or to up the ante. My ante posted to Alaska by clever.<br />
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We went due west from Eugene, to Florence on the coast. We left the racing straightness of freeway for winding two lane highway reminiscent of home in the Shoalhaven and Illawarra, also a drift away from the affluent modernity of Seattle, Portland and Eugene into a poorer and more 'whitebread' world of conventional life.<br />
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In the building housing the not-open-after-noon-this-is-a-very-small-town post office in Walton Oregon I asked the gentleman with the old wares and knives if I could have a bird poster like the one in his window. I'm sorry he said, that's the only one I have... and so saying took my camera and took this photo for me.<br />
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He had only been in the town since last November, having come from Brooklyn where born and raised to be in a house which had been home to other family members now gone to Florida. "It's very whitebread here," he said, "the bread where I came from is so very much everything but whitebread." We were actually quite taken by a cloisonne piece, a jewelry container or such, with lid, about seven inches by four inches by three inches, and though it seemed absurd to be looking at cloisonne on our way to Mexico I asked how much and he said "Oh its $40 but as you'd know it's not much good it's made in China." Two things missing: [a] the cloisonne from the bottom of this photo and [b] the cloisonne from our baggage. And though Helen and I today next day had a fresh hanker over coffee—the sort of a terrible discovery you get that we each had been at 0.46 hanker... we are not going that far back.<br />
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He said he made a fairly decent living from his cabinet of hunting knives. "You've gotta have the jewellery" he said. I said I did not think these good items to have in any part of our baggage travelling through airports in the US, Mexico and Australia. But he clearly knew I had no intention of buying. </div>
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I sort of had the notion of whitebread from what he said, including the risks daily of violence in New York and the force of racial prejudice. He was not suggesting this was a while place, that was a place of colour. He seemed a very decent person. <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whitebread&defid=576225" target="_blank">I have found an excellent definition of 'whitebread' in the Urban Dictionary, from which you get an urban gist which is a bit different still from life in Walton, but you'll get the point</a>.</div>
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PART 3 IS THE 200 MILES DOWN THE COAST FROM FLORENCE TO TRINIDAD</div>
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The towns are for the most part modest, incomes surely more modest, many retired or less wealthy folk, lives in margin of the sea with tides of tourist time and warning signs for tsunami vulnerable places.</div>
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And then the wonder drive began: an almost obscene Americanism—like the sidewalk signs "Have you tried our hickory-smoked-caramel-chocolate-bacon-brugers"—unable to make do with simply large trees and a few rocks in the water, came this succession of bigger trees replacing bigger trees and a modicum of rocks in the water being replaced by an immodestem of rocks in the water. Thundering on into the end of day.</div>
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-9131863667139806102015-05-19T10:50:00.000-07:002015-05-19T17:48:00.479-07:00Saturday 16th: the Hitditch CupVia Skype, we had known that the timing of our visit to Seattle was around a roller derby event known as the Hitditch Cup. We progressively learned or discovered that this is a fundraising party night of the Rat City Rollergirls and is a Harry Potter themed occasion. Derby runs on pseudonym and word play, apart from shoving, and Hitditch, it emerged, is derived from <a href="https://www.usquidditch.org/" target="_blank">Quidditch</a>, which is a game from Harry Potter. This learning increased my knowledge of Pottery to an infinite degree. From that infinite degree I see no great damage to my Harry Potter virgin status and from the infinite no call to learn more.<br />
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But it was a lot of innocent fun and really a great pleasure to see people having such fun.<br />
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At the middle of the evening there was a <a href="https://www.usquidditch.org/about/rules/kidditch" target="_blank">Kidditch</a> match, which seems to pitch wizards and witches into battle.<br />
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Otherwise the evening saw the whole Rat City crowd given an outing after selected for teams in three Potterine school houses. And required to do odd things or do dressups by the casting of spells paid for in fundraising. These are photos by<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dizruptivephotography/" target="_blank"> Debra Carlsen (dizruptive photography)</a>, one of the Rat City photographers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">in which the head referee is obliged to become a jammer and breaks though the blockers very well</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">in which for once the head referee (son-in-law) and our daughter find themselves together in the melee</td></tr>
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after a spell has been cast (by donation of money) requiring that the blockers <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">only block by tickling</span></td></tr>
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Less fortunate was the jammer required to dress thus AND go backwards AND dance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a measure of fun, our 63 lines up to be a jammer</td></tr>
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-4988948983748219322015-05-19T01:39:00.001-07:002015-05-19T11:04:03.248-07:00Portland: minds and imaginationsWe spend a happy couple of hours sharing Liz's friendship with the wonderful <a href="http://albertoyanez.com/in-the-forcing-jar/" target="_blank">Alberto Yañez</a>.<br />
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We were generously accommodated overnight by Venetia Charles and <a href="http://www.leemoyer.com/" target="_blank">Lee Moyer</a>.<br />
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All that was after our first venture in Portland, where Helen led us on a hunt for the <a href="http://www.stickwork.net/" target="_blank">Patrick Dougherty</a> stick sculptures at the Children's Museum, the better to inform her own garden creativity, given that when we get home there will be very large numbers of long shoots to prune from her mulberry. These will be weavable still, we hope, when pruned, but not of such quality as the maple used by Dougherty.<br />
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The first obstacle was that there is no admission to the magical <a href="http://www.portlandcm.org/" target="_blank">Portland Children's Museum</a> without being accompanied by a child. However, Helen prevailed with charm and encountered in response the charm which greets us throughout this trip. The museum was more than generous and gracious, allowing the three of us an escorted journey to see the sculpture, without entry charge.<br />
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-27358818838995290642015-05-18T08:03:00.000-07:002016-10-25T03:32:39.790-07:00some politicoeconomic scaleThis is Monday morning in Portland Oregon, so beautiful when you escape the stained freeway canyons. Today 400 miles to Trinidad California where we will have two nights on the Redwood Coast.<br />
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Some entries to catch up from the last two days, but first some thoughts on sense of scale.<br />
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To begin, I use this map from the <a href="http://strategiesforaustralia.blogspot.mx/" target="_blank">header from another (neglected) blog of mine</a> to show how we have travelled down to near the bottom left hand of the world and are creeping up again.<br />
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For sense of scale, here's another <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP#/media/File:Comparison_between_U.S._states_and_countries_by_GDP_in_2012.jpg" target="_blank">map sourced from Wikipedia</a> showing American comparisons of the economies of states with the GDP of other countries. In these terms we have motored down through an economy the size of Austria, we are in the top of Iraq and heading for Italy, in 2012 numbers. </div>
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Here are the top ten states in 2015, according to Wikipedia.</div>
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So on this scale, it takes a couple of Australian economies to match Italy and you have to add an Oregon to get to the size of California. Then, on IMF ranking, you need to add a Washington State to get one Indonesia. Two Californias and a Washington State will have you around the size of a Japan. Take the Japan and the California and the Washington State and hello India. Two Indias and a Japan added together gets you ahead of either China or the US and with a worried look over shoulder from the EU.</div>
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And on the side, may I remind people in Australia who don't come to terms with the importance of Indonesia, that they would do well to look at the numbers above and see where we sit. Oh, and as this comment relates to the upsurge of feeling about Indonesia's exercise of the death penalty, I was struck looking at the left column immediately above that among the 18 countries ranking higher than Australia, more than half practice the death penalty.... Which tends to reinforce my preference for drawing attention to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" target="_blank">Australia's place on the UNDP's Human Development Index</a>. How long will we maintain our place up there with big government Norway if we vote in governments that do not understand what civil society is?</div>
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-56485439764911511922015-05-16T08:02:00.002-07:002015-05-24T17:23:05.944-07:00Tuesday Night: Rat City Rollergirls practice night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A little movie, one minute 49 seconds, to introduce the gym routine, the rules and the underlying secret of refereeing Roller Derby, at least as now understood by me.<br />
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We had a nice night out with Liz and Mike, in a world where they are known as Betsy Nails and Mike Hammer. Practice night, <a href="http://ratcityrollergirls.com/" target="_blank">Rat City Rollergirls</a>.<br />
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As everywhere else hereabouts, we were made welcome with warm smiles.<br />
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We rented a somewhat catamaranly thing with pedals for four. Helen sat up ahead of Liz, I sat opposite.<br />
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It is a fine exercise for an hour with abundant opportunity for gesticulation<br />
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on the Friday a week before the Memorial Day weekend, when summer holidays begin to begin, we had an easy quiet time on the lake.<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-38062839632269904612015-05-16T01:06:00.001-07:002015-05-16T10:28:37.380-07:0012.42am Saturday: Liz Argall, "Mike Hammer", Lee Moyer, Toulouse PetitIt's past mindlight (accidentally typed apposite expression!). Brain curling at the edges. Such an array of surprises and delights as we go. Still things to record from these days and one more day before we go to Portland on Sunday. And I've heard Liz going upstairs to bed just now after another evening maintaining her discipline of providing <a href="http://www.thingswithout.com/?page_id=43" target="_blank">cartoons on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays</a>. For a widening audience, including in healing professions and communities, but for no income thus far, a condition of her visa status as Liz and Mike await the outcome of Green Card applications.<br />
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Liz is still the extraordinary combiner of values and imagination as she showed in <i><a href="http://aplaceof.info/stories/stories/prophetsister.htm" target="_blank">The Prophet's Sister</a> </i>when she was 19 in 1999, before she learned so much depth of human experience with her mother Margaret's illness and unkind death in the two following years. We have not seen each other from 2011 to this year. It is good to be together and admire what Liz does, <a href="http://lizargall.com/" target="_blank">having taken herself to a bigger world and a wider audience for her creative work</a>.<br />
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When I speak of my admiration for this daughter Liz instantly speaks of how wonderfully she is supported by Mike, who himself, away from his demanding day job and under the name of <a href="http://photography.dannyngan.com/p785474178/h3798BF79#h3798bf79" target="_blank">Mike Hammer</a> (pseudonym, as customary in Roller Derby) has risen swiftly to the third** of five ranks among certified referees in world Roller Derby, having initially been taken up by <a href="https://vimeo.com/107804536" target="_blank">Portland's Rose City derby team</a> in 2009 to advise on skating skills. Liz and Mike make a <a href="http://aplaceof.info/07/03/wedding.htm" target="_blank">great team</a>!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">** <i><a href="http://wftda.com/officiating/certified-referees" target="_blank">Level 3 (silver) Able to exceptionally perform referee duties for WFTDA sanctioned interleague play</a>.</i></span></blockquote>
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This is Liz-perspective as now articulated by the <i><a href="http://www.thingswithout.com/?page_id=43" target="_blank">Things Without</a></i>:<br />
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We travel Sunday with Liz, southwards roadtrip. Mike joins us for the Memorial Day weekend in San Francisco a week from now. We have been generously offered the house of Liz's friend <a href="http://www.leemoyer.com/" target="_blank">Lee Moyer</a> and his partner Venetia in Portland for Sunday night. Venetia and Lee will be away on vacation, but we were able to dine with them on Wednesday evening at <a href="http://toulousepetit.com/" target="_blank">Toulouse Petit</a> in St Anne. How interesting now to have a so-far-away favourite eating place, from 2011 and again now.<br />
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<br />Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-91811684624715370662015-05-16T00:21:00.000-07:002015-05-16T04:45:56.930-07:00Thursday 14 May: Falls City, WA. A charming modest working town and a Steller's Jay<div style="text-align: center;">
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We had arrived at Snoqualmie Falls later than planned and still in search of breakfast. A helpful person at the resort said we would do best to proceed four miles onwards to Falls City.<br />
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As cities go, you could pretty well fire a gun down the main street. But there could be repercussions. This photo, looking along past the gun shop (one of only a few shops we did not enter) is the way we walked when a young man setting up a flea market outside and beyond the store called 'Flea Market' advised us to go and eat at the Raging River Cafe and Club.<br />
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The slow cooking of the prime rib had begun around 6am. It was astonishingly tender and tasty, thick as a thick steak. I had imagined grilled, but this is perfection-roasted. I scarcely needed the knife, the fork was about all necessary. With three fine poached eggs, the hash browns and substituting sliced tomato for toast, as optioned above.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Recreational marijuana </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">is legal </span><br />
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Liz kindly waiting around the corner from the gunshop to ensure that I knew Helen had gone into the Thrift Shop, though Liz knew that I would know that she knew that of course that would be so.<br />
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Their square grid also provided an excellent place for Helen to practice and get secure about making left turns from the right side of the road in a large car, a keystone to driving in America for the first time.</div>
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Around a left turn, we came upon what we identify as a Steller's Jay, or so it seems from the <a href="https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/stellers-jay" target="_blank">Audubon Society's page</a>, by description and distribution. <a href="http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/blue-jay" target="_blank">It's not a Blue Jay</a>, wrong territory. It had reminded me of the look of a Cardinal, the startlingly red bird familiar in Washington DC in the past, <a href="http://twofistedbirdwatcher.com/?p=11389" target="_blank">but see here some cackle over the notion of a Blue Cardinal in the northwest</a>.</div>
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Some modest front yards offer delightful statements of individual style<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588806179214524517.post-46878649559502761062015-05-15T22:26:00.000-07:002015-05-16T01:17:30.395-07:00Thursday 14 May: Finding Snoqualmie Falls<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white;">"<b style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;">Snoqualmie Falls</b><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> is a 268 ft (82 m) </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Waterfall">waterfall</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> on the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoqualmie_River" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Snoqualmie River">Snoqualmie River</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> between </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoqualmie,_Washington" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Snoqualmie, Washington">Snoqualmie</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_City,_Washington" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Fall City, Washington">Fall City, Washington</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="United States">USA</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;">. It is one of Washington's most popular scenic attractions, but is perhaps best known internationally for its appearance in the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_television" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; text-decoration: none;" title="Cult television">cult television</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"> series </span><i style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Twin Peaks">Twin Peaks</a></i><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px;">. More than 1.5 million visitors come to the Falls every year, where there is a two acre (0.8 ha) park, an observation deck, and a gift shop." [Wikipedia]</span></span></blockquote>
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It is a very special and green place. Here some photos from Liz's iPhone on Tuesday, featuring a Great Blue Heron seeking to steal a fisherman's fish, then a family of mallard ducks and a squirrel trying to steal the show.<br />
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