new bike on the way

YaY!

yesterday, Henry W. Coe State Park

We'll go again. http://www.everytrail.com/best/hiking-henry-w-coe-state-park

Peter Matthiessen, R. I. P.

Peter Matthiessen died. His writing, particularly The Snow Leopard, made a big impression on me. And some early explorations I took in The Paris Review opened my eyes to a different kind of world, a literary world, that was interesting, challenging, provocative, and humanistic. To me, Peter Matthiessen is someone to learn from and to some extent, pattern after.  Thank you Peter.

New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/peter-matthiessens-homegoing.html
[image thanks to New York Times]


Here is more good writing about Peter:
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/10/29/Seniority/An_examined_life_wort.shtml

Wind from the east roiling the bay

Yesterday, sadly, in the neighborhood

sfgate.com: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/place/article/San-Francisco-fire-a-blow-to-emerging-neighborhood-5308747.php

Another in the "You Are Here" series

Thanks to Spaceref, a link to a paper describing the local set of galaxies within which we find ourselves.

Kinda boggles the mind. Wonder how many other minds there are in this region writing similar papers.














http://spaceref.com/astronomy/the-milky-way-galaxy-sits-among-a-council-of-giants.html

https://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/news-archive/254-news-2014/2419-milky-way-amidst-a-council-of-giants

Biked to and over Mt Tam this weekend

Boy are my legs tired.

That fourth climb was tough.















thanks to:
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/359871425

public safety building, progress

Recently, moon over east bay

recently, a Mt Diablo hike from North Gate

It was a great day for a hike!