Trees & Music (March 2012)

Trees, Clouds, & Music

Mountain View & Palo Alto,
California, March 2012

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

Preface: After moving to an apartment near Grant Road in Mountain View on January 1, 2012, I noticed many streets with feminine names— Phyllis Avenue, Pamela Drive, and Camille Court. On a shopping trip to Safeway at Blossom Valley Shopping Center, we passed Barbara Avenue. There were some crows hopping around on Miramonte Avenue, and I photographed them on the blossoming pear tree. Near my old apartment on Latham Street, there were Plum Tree, Eucalyptus Tree, and Pepper Tree photographed on my way to catch Bus #35 to Foothill College Middlefield Campus in Palo Alto. There are two "Dome Trees" on my way to the Computer Lab. Three small Plum Trees were also blooming outside near some Birch Trees. On Sunday, March 18, 2012, a friend accompanied me to Flint Center in Cupertino for a California Youth Symphony Concert, where my nephew Byron play the viola. The program included Igor Stravinsky's Circus Polka, Paganin's Violin Concerto #1, Maurice Ravel's La Valse, and Richard Strauss's Suite from Der Rosenkavalier On March 26, I noticed layers of stratus clouds, a vanishing "crocodile cloud" with jaws open, and a "goat ramming a duck cloud".