The geometry of the color and angle simply begged to shot and shared. The venue is the sky above the Wise Owl in Cambria, mid afternoon on a sunny day.
HOME GROWN
Salads have come easily this spring thanks to the abundance of lettuce growing in our raised boxes up here on the ridge. A couple of variety in their beauty here-
GUIDING PRECEPTS
The great man was gunned down on this date 149 years ago. In his time he prevailed against malevolent forces. The hatred and insanity that moved in the action of his death exists still, here and across the globe. We do not, nor should we deify great men and women, but we can and should remember their courage, leadership and imprint it upon ours and future generations. Could another Lincoln emerge here? Has a Lincoln arisen elsewhere? Do we inculcate what it takes in the 21st Century?
The spring growing season has been good up here on the Pine ridge. Our upper raised bed, on the back hill, has yielded an abundance of great lettuce.
We call this upper raised bed "Indiana," because it is flat, tillable and produces well. I know the same can be said for the central valley, but we are paying tribute to some of our great gardens in years past.
FLYING ULTRA FIRST CLASS
The Weekender Video was spotted by Beverly. You've got to see this to believe it.
REEL NOTES
THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
If you were politically active, motivated or interested during the turbulent 70's, Robert Redford's THE COMPANY YOU KEEP, will register with you and may even ring a few bells.
A former Weather Underground activist goes off the grid as a reporter pursues a story, the dimension of which he does not understand. It is a superb reprise of the dilemma, how far do you go to stop a government that is doing wrong? That question ripped the peace movement, mobilized to stop the war in Viet Nam, when more radical elements amped up the fight to include bombings and violence.
Susan Sarandon's monologue, shortly after she is arrested for an old crime, is a brilliant restatement of just that. You may wonder if much has changed at all?
A thrilling intrigue, the film is smart, some of the dialogue plays back like history and is star laden. Robert Redford acts and directs. Great performance from Shia LaBeouf and superb smaller role performances from Chris Cooper, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Sam Elliot, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Brendan Gleeson and Sarandon.
I took a personal interest in the side bar story of the role of the reporter. Back in the day I was assigned to cover the anti war movement which included New Mobe, Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee, SDS, Draft Resistance, the Black Panthers and more. Some of the questions and emotions Redford surfaces are flashbacks for some of us, and just old history to younger viewers. It came as an odd reminder that bombings in that era were done by Americans angry at the Viet Nam war. Deadly, disruptive and dangerous though they were, they seemed less sinister than those by modern terrorists. But America in the 60's and 70's was a vastly different place than America today. Redford draws that in a stoic way. It's a film that will make you think.
