Diagonal concerts
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magscanner and I spent a lovely day in the East Bay. We started at the Harvey Clar auction gallery, where M got to satisfy his collecting urge vicariously (thank goodness!). We had a delightful lunch catching up with Lyn P, whom I barely saw at Potlatch last week. I was also able to give her my Potlatch consuite receipts and receive a check in return, so that is a fine thing too. Then we went for a long and strenuous walk up the streets and stairways of Berkeley above the university. That one of the streets is named Panoramic Way is a clue. Much amazing architecture and, yes, panoramic views.
Then we went down to the Cheeseboard, a wonderful worker-owned collective with fabulous cheeses, including Pleasant Ridge Reserve, a yummy cheese from Wisconsin that we fell in love with last May when we had it on a cheese plate at L'Etoile. The Cheeseboard even had it at a reasonable price (well, less than Whole Foods anyhow). Now I need to set up the delightful cheese safe thatsbisson and marypcb ever so kindly imported from the UK for me (how did you find room in your luggage for it?! Much thanks!). It controls humidity so you can store cheeses in it unwrapped as they ought to be instead of sweating in their plastic wraps. Though I'm hesitant to mix blues with any other cheeses, and two of our purchases from yesterday were blue.
Since we're trying to get our feet in shape for extensive walking in Italy, we then embarked on a second walk, which turned out to have nearly as much rise to it as the first one, despite a lower rating in the book. It took us up near the Berkeley rose garden (though not to it, but that's okay because the roses aren't in bloom yet) and past many, many examples of Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck, and John Galen Howard architecture.
It was after 6 at this point, so we went back to Shattuck & Vine to have a quick meal at Saul's (really, it was quick! Yes, I know, we got lucky). Then we headed over to the block bordered by Durant, Ellsworth, Bancroft, and Dana streets to do something we've joked about but never done until now -- I went to a concert at one church and M went to a concert at another church diagonally opposite to mine. I saw Clerestory, a male a cappella group consisting mainly of former Chanticleer members. (Did you know clerestory is pronounced (and derived from) "clear story"? Years ago I was taught a more complicated but apparently incorrect pronunciation.) M's concert was The King's Trumpetts and Shalmes, featuring many hand-tooled wooden instruments (of sometimes dubious musicality, unfortunately).
Altogether, a most satisfying day. But we had better get a good walk in this afternoon before we start stiffening up.
magscanner and I spent a lovely day in the East Bay. We started at the Harvey Clar auction gallery, where M got to satisfy his collecting urge vicariously (thank goodness!). We had a delightful lunch catching up with Lyn P, whom I barely saw at Potlatch last week. I was also able to give her my Potlatch consuite receipts and receive a check in return, so that is a fine thing too. Then we went for a long and strenuous walk up the streets and stairways of Berkeley above the university. That one of the streets is named Panoramic Way is a clue. Much amazing architecture and, yes, panoramic views.Then we went down to the Cheeseboard, a wonderful worker-owned collective with fabulous cheeses, including Pleasant Ridge Reserve, a yummy cheese from Wisconsin that we fell in love with last May when we had it on a cheese plate at L'Etoile. The Cheeseboard even had it at a reasonable price (well, less than Whole Foods anyhow). Now I need to set up the delightful cheese safe that
sbisson and marypcb ever so kindly imported from the UK for me (how did you find room in your luggage for it?! Much thanks!). It controls humidity so you can store cheeses in it unwrapped as they ought to be instead of sweating in their plastic wraps. Though I'm hesitant to mix blues with any other cheeses, and two of our purchases from yesterday were blue.Since we're trying to get our feet in shape for extensive walking in Italy, we then embarked on a second walk, which turned out to have nearly as much rise to it as the first one, despite a lower rating in the book. It took us up near the Berkeley rose garden (though not to it, but that's okay because the roses aren't in bloom yet) and past many, many examples of Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck, and John Galen Howard architecture.
It was after 6 at this point, so we went back to Shattuck & Vine to have a quick meal at Saul's (really, it was quick! Yes, I know, we got lucky). Then we headed over to the block bordered by Durant, Ellsworth, Bancroft, and Dana streets to do something we've joked about but never done until now -- I went to a concert at one church and M went to a concert at another church diagonally opposite to mine. I saw Clerestory, a male a cappella group consisting mainly of former Chanticleer members. (Did you know clerestory is pronounced (and derived from) "clear story"? Years ago I was taught a more complicated but apparently incorrect pronunciation.) M's concert was The King's Trumpetts and Shalmes, featuring many hand-tooled wooden instruments (of sometimes dubious musicality, unfortunately).
Altogether, a most satisfying day. But we had better get a good walk in this afternoon before we start stiffening up.
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