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November 10, 2018

True

Saturday. Awoke at six-fifteen, right on target. Up to get ready to head out to breakfast, checking the pollution level for my zip code on the tablet app to find it in the red at one eighty-one. Hmm. A bit hazy out there, but nothing I could really smell as I walked, arriving at five minutes to seven after having passed by something being set up at the white column pergola at the lake. Looked like a movie shoot of some kind, but we'll check it again on the way back. OK, the restaurant dark, but the door unlocked and so in to turn on the dining area lights and settle in with the papers.

Had the single pork chop, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit up and coffee for breakfast, finishing the papers just before nine to set out for home. I'd brought the new V 3 camera with the lens taken from the V 1 this time to better frame subjects with the longer zoom, a better test against the V 1 by taking photographs with the same lens. Still shoots a better picture, although the light and such wasn't as good as it was yesterday and so the question isn't settled. We'll see how it goes again Monday.

Later. A walk by the white column pergola with the camera in the backpack, the various RV's, trucks and cars parked on the blocked off El Embarcadero street along with quite a few people setting up what looked to be equipment for a shoot. Or tearing it down. Still not clear what they were up to as there were tripods, lights and such, but no cameras in evidence, no area obviously being used for a shoot.

Walked on to the ATM on Lakeshore passing quite a few people wearing paper masks against the air pollution, stopping on the way back for two scoops in a cup at the ice cream shop before heading on by the pergola again to find everyone in the last stages of packing up their equipment evidently having completed their project. Hadn't taken the camera out for even a single picture.

Evening. And so the day has gone. Television and tablet into the evening, keeping track of the news as it's developed on the fires. Pictures from nearby in the sense of how the smoke has impacted, but also pictures in another sense from a more distant world where the tragedy doesn't really impact. Odd. This world.

You're drifting again.

Still it is also in too many ways true.

The 2015 Fruitvale Dia de los Muertos Festival taken with a Nikon D4s mounted with a 70-200mm f 2.8 VR II Nikkor lens.


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