Haikus: October 2013

HAIKUS: October 2013

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 12:12-6:15 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Oakland Athletics-Texas Rangers Baseball Game"
Jack Mullen tells me Play-by-Play on Oakland A's Game Day site; Info helped to identify Leonys Martin bunting & Adrian Beltre grounds out in 9/4 photos;

Added article in preface
on baseball's walk-up music
that helps batter hit better. Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 6:17-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatted 57 of 190 photos on August 11, 2013 hike
at Cowell Ranch Beach Trail; Some favorite photos: Impressionistic plants painting from car; Vanishing Point on Trail to Beach; Whale Fence on Trail; ;

Bouquet Bush of Yellow Madia;
Bee on Shasta Daisy;
Golden Yarrow, Cliffs, Ocean.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 8:00-8:30 am
Mountain View: Vivid Dream of Seamus Heaney;
After picnic, students went inside home of Seamus Heaney where we sat around his library room; Woman admired Heaney's "Magnolia" poem,
his metaphor comparing flower to North Pole

Seamus used mythology
to explain etymology of words
Anunnaki (Anunnatti) as titans. Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 1:02-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatting 190 photos from August 11, 2013 hike
at Cowell Ranch Beach Trail; Lee Pauser's Bay Area Wildflowers, U.S. Wildflowers & Dereila Images of Alpine Flowers helpful in identifying wildflowers

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare);
SalviaFarinacea (Mealy Sage);
Bull Thistle (Cirsiium vulgare).

Thursday, October 3, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"For Better Social Skills, Scientists Recommend a Little Chekhov" (Pam Belluck, NY Times, 10-3-2013)

Reading literary fiction
helps navigate social territory
better than popular fiction. Thursday, October 3, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Can You Read People's Emotions?"
(By NY Times, 10-3-2013) (Scored 26/36)

Above 30/36 score: quite good
at understanding other's mental
state based on their facial cues.

Friday, October 4, 2013, 1:00-3:30 pm
Palo Alto: Baylands Nature Preserve; Terminal Blvd, Gate E (Map); Classmate Ivan gives me ride in his red Nissan sportscar to Day Hike class (PHED23B); Foothill College Instructor Thomas McCarthy

I'm the slowest hiker
taking photos of ducks,
snowy egrets and pelicans.
Friday, October 4, 2013, 8:00-9:30 pm
Waverley Writers Poetry Reading: Missed 7:09 pm Bus #35 since 6:44 pm Bus #40 was 16 minutes late;
Tom Digby read his poem "Breezy Bubbles";
Elizabeth Chapman read "Hitting for the Cycle"

Read two poems tonight—
"Rally Squirrel Baseball Card"
and "Platonic Lambda Light".

Saturday, October 5, 2013, 12:29-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Finished composing web pages of 181 photos taken
August 11, 2013 hike at Cowell Ranch Beach Trail;
Info Boards: Agriculture; Wet & Wild; Harbor Seal:
Jack came to Krause Center & gave me ride home;
Three favorite photographs—

"Flowers, Cliffs, Ocean";
"Bush Bunny on Trail";
"Seven Pelicans over Land". Saturday, October 5, 2013, 7:00-10:23 pm
Mountain View: Listened to Radio KGMZ 95.7 FM—
Major League Baseball Second Game ALDS:
Oakland Athlethic's vs Detroit Tigers at O Coliseum
Rookie Sonny Gray (SO 9) matched Veteran Justin Verlander (SO 11) pitch-for-pitch in suspenseful 0-0 playoff game (News; Boxscore; Game Day Video).

Stephen Vogt's single in 9th
with bases loaded wins
game 1-0 for the A's.

Sunday, October 6, 2013, 1:20-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)

Carrots, tomatoes,
pizzas, fish fillet, tater tots,
dairy creamer, almond milk. Sunday, October 6, 2013, 3:05-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Didn't buy Speakers Roundtable's
"Speaking Secrets of the Masters" (1995) ($19 for $1)

Wisdom of 22 top speakers
sharing their insights
on communication.

Sunday, October 6, 2013, 3:05-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Didn't buy Milan Kundera's
"The Art of the Novel" (1986) ($7.95 for 50c) 809.3KUNDERA; Quotes poet Jan Skacel:

Poets don't invent poems.
The poem is somewhere behind.
It's been there for a long long time.
The poet merely discovers it. Sunday, October 6, 2013, 3:05-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Didn't buy ($22/$4) Scott Fox's
"Click Millionaires" (2012) 658.872FOX (Library has this book to borrow later); (Book Subtitle: Work Less, Live More with an Internet Business You Love)

Recipes for building
online business to provide
the lifestyle you want.

Sunday, October 6, 2013, 3:05-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought Andrew Weil's book
"Spontaneous Happiness" (2011) ($27.99 for $2)
Chapters on Optimizing Emotional Well-Being by Caring for the Body & the Mind; Integrating Eastern & Western Psychology; 8-Week Program for Optimum Emotional Well-Being

Saints and sages advice:
happiness comes from within,
impervious to life's ups & downs. Sunday, October 6, 2013, 8:00-9:45 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium; Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud direct "Despicable Me 2" (2013)
with Steve Carell (Gru), Kristen Wiig (Lucy Wilde), Benjamin Bratt (Eduardo Perez/El Macho), Miranda Cosgrove (Margo), Russell Brand (Dr. Nefario); (YouTube: 1, 2); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) (Rudy came)

Computer-animated
comedy film to recover
stolen lab of mutagen.

Monday, October 7, 2013, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Jack left his USB in computer on Thursday
& retrieved it today at 12:15 pm; he showed me
MLB site— 3rd ALDS game between A's & Tigers

Reddick, Moss, and Smith
hit homers as Oakland A's
beat Detroit 6-3 in Game 3. Monday, October 7, 2013, 12:10-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Inside a Drop of Water", Part 2
(Diana Zhang, Epoch Times, October 3, 2013, B7)
Masaru Emoto writing words on bottled water

"Wisdom" and "Cosmos"
written in German & Japanese
showed snowflake crystals.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"BOOKS: Scratching a Muse's Ears—
Mary Oliver's Dog Songs Finds Poetry in Friends"
(By Dana Jennings, NY Times, 10-7-2013)

Mary Oliver walks
in the woods with her dog
with notebook in hand. Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Opinionator: THE GREAT DIVIDE—
Rich People Just Care Less"
(By Daniel Goleman, NY Times, 10-5-2013)

People with most social power
pay scant attention to those
with little such power.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 2:11-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatted 70 photos of First Day Hike Class
on 10/4 at Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve;
Identifying wildflowers and plants on hike—

Black Sage (Salvia mellifera)
Pampas Grass (Cortaderia selloana)
White Fiesta Flower (Pholistoma membranaceum) Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 2:11-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatted 70 photos of First Day Hike Class
on 10/4 at Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve;
Some favorite photos on Baylands hike—

Two Herons to the Sun;
Great Blue Heron at Baylands;
Snowy Egret at Baylands.

Thursday, October 10, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" Breakfast Montage
(YouTube; Hermann's Score, Music Analysis,
Series of Scenes, Kane Breakfast, 5Passing Time)
Wrote Poem: "Deja Vu at Shoreline Park"

Seeing two Snowy Egrets
at opposite end of the pond
reminds me of Citizen Kane. Thursday, October 10, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
11 animals that mate for life: Swans, Bald Eagles, Turtle Doves, Schistosoma mansoni worms, Wolves, Prairie voles, Termites, Albatrosses, French Angelfish, Black Vultures, Gibbons; (Snowy Egret: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Snowy Egrets live
from 12-17 years
and share in nesting.

Friday, October 11, 2013, 1:00-3:00 pm
Redwood City: Edgewood County Park;
10 Old Stagecoach Road (Map); Old friend gives me ride to Day Hike class; Instructor Thomas McCarthy

Sylvan Trail to Serpentine
Loop to Franciscan to Serpentine
to Edgewood Trail to Picnic Area.
Friday, October 11, 2013, 4:30-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: THE CREATIVE MID-LIFE:
Yo-Yo Ma and the Mind Game of Music
(By Joan Anderman, NY Times, 10-10-2013)

Yo-Yo Ma: "The thing I'm most
interested in is figuring out
what makes people tick."

Friday, October 11, 2013, 6:00-7:20 pm, 9:30-10 pm
Stanford Theatre: George Marshall directs "The Blue Dahlia" (1946), with Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Will Wright; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)
(Lake gives ride to Ladd; Bacall gives ride to Bogart)

Alan Ladd tries to prove
he didn't kill his cheating wife
with help from Veronica Lake. Friday, October 11, 2013, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Delmer Daves directs "Dark Passaget" (1947), Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Clifton Young, Houseley Stevenson, Thomas J. D'Andrea, Vince Edwards; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Music "Too Marvellous for Words"
binds Bogart & Bacall together
in this adventurous film noir.

Saturday, October 12, 2013, 1:13-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
BOOKS: Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
(Munro, 82, has written 14 story collections, is a "master of the contemporary short story". Was 37, with her first book "Dance of the Happy Shades".)
(By Julie Bosman, NY Times, 10-11-2013)

Alice Munro quote:
"The constant happiness
is curiosity". Saturday, October 12, 2013, 1:13-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
BOOKS: AN APPRAISAL— Master of the Intricacies of the Human Heart (Alice Munro observed: "The complexity of things— the things within things— just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.") (Michiko Kakutani, NY Times, 10-11-13)

Nobel literature winner
Munro mines the inner
lives of girls and women.

Sunday, October 13, 2013, 3:05-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought Andrew Weil's book
"OP-ED: Is Music the Key to Success?" (Condoleezza Rice trained as concert pianist. Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman was clarinet & saxophone player. Hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner is a pianist who took classes at Juilliard.) (Joanne Lipman, NY Times, 10-13-2013)

Many high achievers say
music opened up pathways
to creative thinking. Sunday, October 13, 2013, 8:00-9:45 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium;
Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg direct
"This Is the End" (2013) with Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Michael Cera, Emma Watson;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
People with good deeds are transported to heaven

Apocalyptic comedy film
with beams of blue light
taking people like Rapture.

Monday, October 14, 2013, 12:29-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatted 46 photos of Second Day Hike Class
on October 11 at Edgewood County Park,
10 Old Stagecoach Road, Redwood City;
Some favorite photos on Edgewood hike—

Oak Tree at Entrance;
"Shake Dancing" Gnarly Bay Trees;
Monterey Cypress at Entrance.
Monday, October 14, 2013, 12:29-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
A Bridge Between Western Science and Eastern Faith
(Dalai Lama started a project Emory-Tibet Science Initiative to translate science textbooks for use in monasteries.) (Kim Severson, NY Times, 10-12-2013)

Dalai Lama hopes to meld
the interior world of meditation
with the exterior world of matter.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 12:30-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"MEDIA & ADVERTISING: A Novel Prompts a Conversation About How We Use Technology"
(Dave Eggers's The Circle resembles Google.)
(By Julie Bosman & Claire Cain Miller, NY Times, 10-10-2013) OP-ED: A World Without Privacy

Michele Filgate quit Twitter
after reading Egger's book
on Internet dependency. Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 12:30-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"All Is Fair in Love and Twitter" (Seven years after Twitter was founded, the company with a catchy name had more than 2,000 employees, more than 200 million active users and a market value estimated at $16 billion.) (By Nick Bilton, NY Times, 10-13-2013)

Jack Dorsey thought
up the idea of Twitter in
San Francisco's playground.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 1:42-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Email from Frederick Ormondroyd (Milwaukee, WI)
on Terence J. S. Gray, that he stumbled up my site on Wei Wu Wei. He was reading Walter Liebenthal's "Chao Lun: The Treatises of Seng-Chao" (1968), and surprised to find note thanking Terence Gray for his help in translating book from German to English.

British students destroyed
Gray's playwright career in
1930s for using German lighting. Thursday, October 17, 2013, 2:00-3:00 am
Mountain View: Reading James Longenbach's book Virtues of Poetry (2013); Come virtues that poetry might aspire: boldness, change, compression, dilation, doubt, excess, inevitably, intimacy, otherness, particularity, restraint, shyness, surprise, worldliness; Insightful analysis of Yeats poem "Easter 1916" with stanzas I, II, IV ending "A terrible beauty is born."

Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

Thursday, October 17, 2013, 1:03-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
92nd Birthday Page for my Cornell Professor
Woodblock Print #92 from 100 Views of Edo
"Mokubo Temple and Vegetable Fields by the
Uchi River" by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858)
is imbued with serenity, inspiring this haiku—

Crossing the river bridge
to majestic pine trees—
peace awaits you here. Thursday, October 17, 2013, 1:03-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
92nd Birthday Page for my Cornell Professor
NGC 92 galaxy looks like "9" reminds me of Israel #128 skywriting "9" and Israel #J6 postage due with number "2" for "92". US Stamps by Year has U.S. #92 Benjamin Franklin 1¢ blue (issued 8-11-1868)

From microscopic Uranium-92 atom
to the macroscopic NGC 92 galaxy,
this universe brings you blessings.

Friday, October 18, 2013, 1:00-3:50 pm
Woodside: Wunderlich Park (Bay Area Hiker);
4040 Woodside Road (Map); Friend gives me ride to Foothill Day Hike class; Instructor Thomas McCarthy

Left on Meadow Trail to
Alambique Flat (Elevation 1230 ft)
to Oak Trail back to Parking Lot.
Friday, October 18, 2013, 5:15-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Returned Natalie Goldberg's
"The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language" after reading about Buddha's last days

Buddha gazed at Vaishali
taking in all of its beauty
with eyes of an elephant queen.

Friday, October 18, 2013, 6:15-7:20, 9:50-10:10 pm
Stanford Theatre: Abraham Polonsky directs "Force of Evil" (1948), with John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Beatrice Pearson, Marie Windsor, Roy Roberts, Paul Fix; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)
(Greed turns Garfield & Bogart to evil in both films)

John Garfield plays
attorney turned gangster
in New York numbers racket. Friday, October 18, 2013, 7:30-9:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: John Huston directs "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya, Arturo Soto Rangel, Robert Blake; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Books)

Greed for gold changes
a man's character as we watch
Dobbs turning mad with evil.

Saturday, October 19, 2013, 12:30-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Web Links to Number 92; Messier 92 in constellation Hercules; 1945 film The House on 92nd Street; U.S. Route 92 in Florida; 92nd Street Y in Manhattan; Beretta 92 pistol; Saab 92 automobile (1949-1956); Uniform #92 worn by Reggie White & Michael Strahan; Thomas McGuane's Ninety-two in the Shade

Link references
for web pages
on Number 92. Saturday, October 19, 2013, 6:30-6:50 pm
Mountain View: Shopping at 99 Ranch Market
(1350 Grant Road): Bought Mogami sesame oil,
sesame chips, sesame crunch, sweet vinegar beans,
jumbo thick dry tofu, green onions, large eggs;
Palo Alto: Cubberley Pavilion Ballroom Dancing
(9:00 pm-Midnight)— Didn't come for 7 weeks so as not to transmit shingles pain to dancing partners

Fun dancing tonight
with Ann, Cathy, Dana,
Gwen, Mary, Su, and Susan.

Sunday, October 20, 2013, 2:30-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)

Broccoli, tomatoes,
mustard potato salad,
Minute Maid orange juice. Sunday, October 20, 2013, 4:07-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "How Boston Red Sox got to World Series" (Mark Townsend, Yahoo! Sports, 10-20-2013)

From last place to first,
"Boston Strong" Red Sox
jelled after the Boston bombing.

Sunday, October 20, 2013, 4:07-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: "Stanford receiver Kodi Whitfield with a grab for the ages" (By Tim Kawakami, SJ Mercury News, 10-20-2013) (Video of Catch)
(By Antonio Gonzalez, Yahoo! Sports, 10-19-2013)

Whitfield's one-handed
30-yard touchdown reception
was a most spectacular catch. Sunday, October 20, 2013, 4:07-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Bought Walter Gratzer's
"A Literary Companion to Science" (1990, p. 167) ($24.95 for $2); G.H. Hardy's taxi-cab was 1729
and Ramanujan replied "1729 is very interesting"—

It's the smallest number
expressible as sum of two cubes
in two different ways..

Monday, October 21, 2013, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Five hours to format 58 photos web pages of
Wunderlich County Park Hike on October 18 at
4040 Woodside Road, Woodside (Class Photo);
Some favorite photos on Wunderlich hike—

"Broccoli" Eucalyptus in Sunlight;
Sunflare and Gnarly Live Oak on Trail;
"Serpent-Eyed" Tree Trunk Ready to Strike.
Monday, October 21, 2013, 12:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Mount Umunhum: Summit is converted to public park" (Paul Rogers, SJ Mercury News, 10-20-2013); "Dream team of volunteers restoring Mount Diablo's spark" (Denis Cuff, SJ Mercury News, 10-21-2013)

Mount Umunhum
and Mount Diablo
are both overhauled.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 12:02-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Format photos taken on Sunday, October 6 in
backyard (1:54 pm): Three Palms & Clouds, Fish Cloud & Three Palms, Three Palms & Clouds, Clouds & Three Palms, Stork Cloud over Pine Tree; Photos (6:57 pm) on SE Bus of Sunset Clouds (1, 2, 3, 4)

Tall palms reaching skyward
to catch a fish and sunset
clouds caught while on bus. Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 12:02-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote poem on "Asymmetric Bay Tree" at the corner
of Middlefield & San Antonio Roads whose branches grew parallel to each other forming the Greek word nabla ∇, first used by William Hamilton in 1837 for the del operator, as it resembled the Egyptian harp.

Two Bay Tree branches are so close
to each other hugging and kissing,
playing harp music for the angels.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote poem on "Hand Cloud Across the Sky"—
Is this giant hand Rodin's sculpture "The Hand of God" or the Wolverine's sharp claws with red rage?

Here are the radiant colors
Delacroix splashed in two hours
on the wall of Dumas costume ball. Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Misidentified "Asymmetric Bay Tree" at the corner
of Middlefield & San Antonio Roads; Looks like Ash, Chestnut, Yellow Birch; But it's an Elm Tree (Leaves).

Identify by Leaf,
Browse through Trees,
Tree Leaf Identification.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Typed poem "Homage to Delacroix" written 8-4-1979 after visiting his studio at 6 rue de Fürstenberg and Saint-Sulphice seeing "Jacob Wrestling the Angel"

Found favorite stamp France #1054
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
at site Collecting by Engraver. Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 1:00-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Checked leaves of "Asymmetric Bay Tree" at the corner of Middlefield & San Antonio Roads; found
it to be Elm Tree without any branches chopped off.

Elm Tree at Jiffy Lube,
Branches not chopped off,
Branches playing the harp.

Thursday, October 24, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Dream on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 at 8 am
1st scene: Playing softball & hit home run over fence;
2nd scene: Give book report on Ramana Maharshi

Don't have to read any books,
just talk from memory of Ramana's
teachings on Time, Peace, & Liberation. Thursday, October 24, 2013, 12:30-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Five hours for web page with 87 photos of hike
with Al & Rudy at Picchetti Ranch on 9-17-2011;
Some favorite photos from Picchetti Ranch hike—

Dancing Ghost Clouds over Trees,
Arched Bay Tree on Zinfandel Trail,
Peacock Drinking at the Creek.

Friday, October 25, 2013, 1:00-5:05 pm
Cupertino: Picchetti Ranch (Bay Area Hiker);
13100 Montebello Road (Map); Friend gives me ride to Foothill Day Hike class; Instructor Tom McCarthy;
Same trail hiked on 9-17-2011 with Al & Rudy

Hiked on 1.9 mile long
Zinfandel Trail— I'm slowest
hiker taking photos while walking.
Friday, October 25, 2013, 12:30-5:30 pm
Cupertino: Got lost to Picchetti Ranch, winding up on hilltop mansion & down in quarry; Got lost returning, turning left & winding up at Ridge Vineyards (17100 Montebello Rd) before finding Stevens Canyon Road

More adventure getting lost
on Montebello mountaintop
than hiking at Picchetti Ranch.

Friday, October 25, 2013, 6:10-7:20, 9:25-10:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Orson Welles directs "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947), starring Orson Welles,
Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders,
Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Surreal shootout in
Hall of Mirrors is highlight
ending of Welles film noir. Friday, October 25, 2013, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: John Huston directs "Key Largo" (1948), Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Books)

As hurricane rages on,
tough guy Rocco gets edgy
while Frank shows character.

Saturday, October 26, 2013, 12:42-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
Interesting comic strips from last two days—
Bob Thaves: "Frank & Ernest" (10-25-2013) on
First "Know Thyself" & then "Extinguish My Ego";
Dan Piraro: "Bizarro" (10-24-2013) "Palindrome";
Piraro said "many people did not understand this gag", not knowing the definition of "palindrome"

My favorite palindrome:
A man, a plan,
a canal— Panama! Sunday, October 27, 2013, 8:00-10:22 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium;
Baz Luhrmann directs "The Great Gatsby" (2013)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Amitabh Bachchan, Adelaide Clemens;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
("The Great Gatsby" novel and film information)

Nick recalls Gatsby's
wild parties to lure Daisy
whom he's madly in love with.

Monday, October 28, 2013, 12:33-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Delacroix's "King Rodrigo" painted in two hours at Dumas Costume Ball (March 15, 1833), now at Art Museum, Bremen; Story in Tom Prideux's "The World Of Delacroix, 1798 1863" (1966) (pp. 122-123)

Delacroix came as Dante
to Dumas Costume Ball, painted
mural of battle scene in two hours.
Monday, October 28, 2013, 12:33-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Six hours to format 110 photos from
Picchetti Ranch Hike on October 25, 2013
at 13100 Montebello Road, Cupertino;
Favorite photos on Picchetti Ranch hike—

Platonic Lambda Entrance;
Mandorla in Bay Tree;
Rooster in Sunlight.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 1:20-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Just Call Him Rambobrandt: Sylvester Stallone's Art Masterpieces" (Jenny Depper, Yahoo News, 10-29-13)
'Sylvester Stallone' spotted in 16th century painting
(By Michael Krumboltz, Yahoo! News, 5-10-2012)
"Pope Gregory IX Approving the Decretals" (1511)

Stallone in Raphael's painting—
now his 30-piece artwork is shown
at St. Petersburg Russian Museum.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 1:20-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Three hours to compose web page of
Picchetti Ranch Hike on October 25, 2013
at 13100 Montebello Road, Cupertino;
(Picchetti Ranch Hike on September 17, 2011)
Favorite photos on Picchetti Ranch 2013 hike—

Heart Stump Still Here;
Serpentine Live Oak on Trail;
Arched Bay Tree on Arch Trail.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 2:30-3:15 pm
Mountain View: 990 Bay St. Parktown Dental Care;
Dr. Roberto V. Espejo, Jr. extracted root of broken tooth #21, bioplant insert in cavity; bite on gauze for half-hour to stop bleeding; will remove permanent suture on Nov. 5; Caught 4:02 pm Bus #32 to San Antonio & Middlefield; Noticed Bending Bay Tree

Tree Bending to Keats Ct,
Keats Ct & Middlefied Sign,
Sidewalk Sign of Keats Court.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 4:55-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Inspired to write poem "Bending Bay Tree";
as tree is not bending to creek water but to poet who loves trees; amazed to find old "Tree Poem" written 24 years ago (10-25-1989) with epigraph of Keats letter to John Taylor (February 27, 1818)

"If poetry comes not as naturally
as the leaves to a tree,
it had better not come at all."

Thursday, October 31, 2013, 1:09-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Joseph Severn's "Portrait of Keats, listening to a nightingale on Hampstead Heath" (1845) shows Keats in a forest grove with two Y-shape trees behind him; Bending Bay Tree is also Y-shaped; "Ode on a Grecian Urn" has tree citations in stanzas 2, 3, 5

Fair youth, beneath the trees,
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
With forest branches and the trodden weed...
Thursday, October 31, 2013, 1:09-10:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Finished Notes to poem "Bending Bay Tree";
Just as Keats paid homage to trees in his poems,
Bay Tree bends to Keats Court honors the poet.
My "Tree Poem" on Keats & "Bending Bay Tree" span 24 years like clockwork. Halloween surprise—

Keats was born on October 31, 1795,
so I honor him today with a poem
on his 218th birthday.