17 August 2007. Sunny, blue skies, crisp light...almost autumn. Woman in wide straw hat with scooping down-turned brim, eyes lowered as well, making her way down Solano in small decisive steps...Fujian, Hangzhou... A chalky red sweater, neither bright nor pastel, returning as a Digueno, here from a 19th century print--the flight into Egypt... Sauvage, Christophe explains--not so much wild as close to nature. As in the names--Jamul, Cuyamaca, Pauma Valley...the back country, mom called it...dry boulder-studded hills, touches of red clay. Manzanita and chaparral--cumulus cloud banks over mountains to the east, the desert beyond...
Ceanothus--a wild lilac, scrub oak, toyon...
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