morning 10 a.m.
Hwy 99 south of Yuba City
on an orchard hunt with Wendell
cool - low clouds, like a high fog, patches of blue break through now & again, creating a constantly changing light
Wendell sees a gate to nowhere - I spy El Mexicano and it's guardian oak across the highway.
Farther along the road, a guardian oak by a pear orchard - I accidentally tear the neg as I release it from it's paper case, but it doesn't hurt any vital components of the image so I call it providence and go along with it.
Pears or almonds? Neither Wendell nor I really know - both of us have some second-hand familial knowledge but the actual identifying is pretty much guess work - (final verdict: pears.)
Early afternoon - picked up lunch in Chico, headed south out of town -
At Dayton & Durham Roads
Walnut orchard - clouds have cleared now, mostly sunny & warming up.
(across the road from the walnuts, one dead tree on the corner.)
Tightly planted almonds create a myriad of geomentric alignments - mown weeds cover the dry cool ground - cars and trucks fly by along the road - the rancher comes by on his tractor to see what we're up to, wishes us well, takes a diagonal path away through the orchard - a bee buzzes near, then away, no more blossoms to attract her here -
Just north of Durham on Durham-Dayton Road - at a sharp turn in the road -
Rio Bonito Road at Hwy 99, Bayles Ranch - Town of Biggs, just north of Yuba City
(across Rio Bonito from the orchard)
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