Kites a little clearer here--29th April

Charged by 2 snarling dogs while ago

--this in the State Park NO DOGS section. There are miles north toward Cayucos where dogs can go off leash. There's an on-leash area here north of the Rock. Then there is the NO DOGS State area.

I was running strongly, thinking how well I was doing for 81. Then after the attack I went from hale and hearty to slow, weak, and clumsy.

The owners could not control the dogs because they were holding their hands, palms up, filled with sand dollars.

Scary, though, how an old person can go from hearty to wasted in a few moments.

Mobbed Beach today

Kites yesterday, if you can see them

Reading MOBY-DICK 2 Times at Once

Noon--Private Beach to Morro Rock from a Mile North

Private Beach--Morro Rock from Duck Creek

The Return of Morro Rock

Toward Morro Rock from my Usual Standpoint--end of Hwy 41--& Stickhouses

Lone Fisherman & The Rock--2 pictures

Kite Surfers--the Bravest of the Brave--in Fierce North Wind

2 pictures from up a little closer--to Morro Creek

Some people who have died too soon since 2006, leaving out kinfolks except Ben

Henry Binder 1944-2006
James Meriwether 1928-2007

Leo Lemay 1935-2008
Edwin S. Shneidman 1918-2009
Walter E. Bezanson 1912-2011
Donald Yannella 1934-2012

Maurice Sendak 1928-2012
Noel Polk 1943-2012
Joyce Deveau Kennedy 1937-2012
Ben Tindall 1932-2013
Brian Higgins 1944-2015
Charlie Robinson 1941-2016
This is not counting neighbors.

Who else am I just not ready to put down here?
And why is it so hard to keep the order of deaths in mind?

Really Tired of People Who Were Important to Me Dying

Henry Binder 1944-2006
James Meriwether 1928-2007
Donald Yannella 1934-2012
Noel Polk 1943-2012
Joyce Deveau Kennedy 1937-2012
Ben Tindall 1932-2013
Brian Higgins 1944-2015
Charlie Robinson 1941-2016
And others I might add . . . .

Invasion of the Private Beach below Morro Rock

Morro Rock is Still Here

Last Great Colleague in Delaware Gone--Charles E. Robinson

Last October 25 Charlie Robinson sent out a group email saying he had cancer and telling everyone not to contact him again.

I respected his wishes, but yesterday I sent him an email with "You don't have to answer" in the subject line and just saying this:

but you should know we are thinking about you.

Hershel

Today his widow answered. Charlie died 20 November 2016.

So we are mourning, and it's never too late for mourning.

Tourists discover Morro Bay

Dazzling sunlight, no hoards--Morro Bay Private Beach

Hoards in dazzling sunlight

Morro Rock 18 April 2017

Jolly Playmates, oh Jolly Playmates

Ages in Death Notices in SLO Tribune Today--if you survive your 70s . . . .

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Brought to me from an SLO restaurant, hush puppy and slice of corn bread

Reminds me that you can make many things tasty with an irresponsible amount of sugar and hog fat.

Any news about Sarah Ewart and Thomas Hill?

Any descendants of Sarah Ewart and Thomas Hill's children, "James Ewart Hill" and "Robert Ewart Hill"

Who might know? Anyone who knows about descendants of Jonathan Price and Elizabeth Ewart: Reece Price, Esther McDowell Price, Rebecca E. Price, Parmelia Price, Reece S. Knox, Samuel Walkup Henry, Reece P. Harry, John Franklin Harry, Rebecca E. Harry, Charles E. Walker

Not rain but scud blown on SW wind

Dead in the sand

10 a.m.

Maurice Sendak signing at the Rosenbach 17 Sept. 1995

Maurice Sendak at Rosenbach 17 Sept. 1995 Heddy making a Face

See the line of cars beside the Rock? Tourists picnic there but seldom step onto the sand.

Hoards of Tourists Out for Easter

Tourists--1 minute before fleeing from the rain

Morro Rock in Light Rain--But No Rain Falls on Very Old Men

9 am Morro Bay--Private Beach & Rock

Strong North Wind on the Private Beach

Throngs in down jackets & the Heroic Frank H back running shirtless and barefoot in the ocean

with a newly healing Achilles tendon. This Morro Bay icon was

missing for 3 months. And even Frank admitted that running against the frigid north wind today was not fun

Alison Marie Parker

Everett, Wilburn, Hershel--end of 1952, early 1953--only picture of the 3

The only picture of the 3 of us.

Reading MOBY-DICK in 1957, 60 years ago

It's just now 60 years since I read MOBY-DICK over 11 afternoons while I allowed the pneumo-peritoneum to settle down after being up in the morning at West Contra Costa Junior College. I knew Shakespeare so well after the 5 months of reading the plays over and over the previous year that I could hardly believe a young American could have absorbed Shakespeare as Melville had done. Mr. Pence had let me read the book although he was teaching a course in the late 19th century, and I ignorantly wrote a paper on a blue book not writing on the back of pages until I got to the end and had more to say, so I had to turn it around and keep going. Mr. Pence gave me an A+ and said something in praise. Now here I am, 60 years later, proofreading the new Norton Critical Edition of MOBY-DICK, fifty years after the first one was published. What a world.

Sendak 1991

Cover of the Kraken PIERRE--signed by Maurice Sendak

The things you find in drawers.

Samuel Walker half a century later records a moment of Thomas Sumter's courage

[We] marched to Blackstock there had a battle and defeated the British

General [Thomas] Sumter was wounded in the shoulder. I saw him when he was shot his sword fell out of his right hand and he Caught it with his left before it fell to the ground

How can biographers have written without knowing this?

The blue does not last forever--3 pictures

From halfway there

Buying 5 x 8 cards by the gross is something I did in 1962

I used them for weeks in the fall typing up my dissertation notes.
This was another time.
The first edition of the Norton MD came out in 1967.
I am using one of the 1962 5 x 8s now to mark the page and line of the 2nd edition and the new 3rd edition.
I will leave a clean card for the 4th edition in 10 years . . . . . .

Rain lashing face, sand lashing legs--fun run for someone in his 9th decade

Forceful South wind whipping rain onto face even while it was whipping sand on my legs. Can you see the blowing sand in the first picture?

Someone came out near the Rock with 3 big loud dogs but there was no one on my 2 mile part of the beach.