12-1-06 VERMONT: We came up yesterday. It was in almost 70°. I started the last of the leaf blowing in the afternoon and got shut down by darkness with just a bit to go. Then the rain started and continues. The storm did take a break today, and I finished the leaves in time to avoid the current deluge. You all realize, of course, that the leaves should be under snow cover or at least frozen solidly to the ground now and the rain should be snow. This picture, if it loads, shows how green, and wet, things are. Yesterday we saw a yellow wildflower in bloom in the pasture, not what December is supposed to be in Vermont.
We went to the Met before Vermont and heard “Idomeneo” with Dorothea Röschmann. She has a beautiful voice. All the singers were right on, hit all the notes and had impressive strength, but she has a very appealing quality to her voice. The set is dominated by a giant head of a vengeful Neptune, who kind of resembled the Neptune in “Pirates of the Caribbean”. This Neptune could make a believer out of Richard Dawkins. The opera was almost four hours long, but the time just flies by when you’re having Mozart.
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must be cold by now. where's the picture?
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