Paradise, day 1.

We are here, where time is tricky. For instance, we woke up and got out of the house within fifteen minutes of the time we said we'd leave. We arrived on the doorstep only about a half hour after we thought we'd arrive. So, we made pretty good time, I'd say.


Around five, I took a heavenly nap on the couch beneath the picture window. It seemed infinite. But it was miraculously not too long, not the too long that makes you feel cranky and panicky. (anyone else besides me feel this after the too long nap?)













However, when Software Update announced that I had significant software updates to install, and I clicked the "Sure, Why Not?" button, here's what it told me:








We'll see. (A minute ago, it told me 116 hours.)

River.

The Wet Spring That Was is also occurring in Idaho. My dad called to say, a few hours ago, that a severe weather watch was in effect in eastern Idaho, with as much as a dozen inches of snow predicted for Island Park. Snow! This has put a serious crimp in the unrolling of my grand plan, which occurs in this order:

• Finish the semester (check)
• Finish grading (check!)
• Go to L.A. (check)
• Come home and cry a little (also check!)
• See a dubious comedy @ Brewvies, with Dr. Write et al (hi Jane & Pam!)(also, hello Shroom & Swiss Gardenburger with fries!)
• Gather my wits and be the happy genius of my house (in progress, but check!)
• Drive up to Idaho with my folks to open the cabin and spend some quality time with them. (weather-related wrench in the gears!)

After that, there was to be, and still will be

• Go to the west desert with singing son for a music weekend
• Go to NoCal to see my oldest darling friend
• Return to Zion, then drive north with the historian to Idaho

Well, time, fortune, and the weather will sort themselves out. One way or another, we'll be in Idaho, oh YES WE WILL BE IN IDAHO sometime in June.

But until then, perhaps a few pictures of the Glendale Narrows section of the Los Angeles River will cheer us all up. If we needed cheering up, which, around here, actually, we don't:

There and back.

We went here:

and then we came home, it was just that quick. Now, I am looking at this:

as if it were unfolding in time-lapse photography, thinking, slow down already, do you have to be in such a rush?