{"id":5172,"date":"2014-03-16T13:17:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T21:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2014-03-16T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T21:17:43","slug":"spring-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/16\/spring-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, yeah, I enjoyed the rain and now it\u2019s spring.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/rootwall.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Love this bank with the exposed root.  All the unknown underlying aspects of the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/seaweedagain.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Went out to the beach one foggy morn with daughter Georgia, her husband, and their two darling children.  The piles of washed up kelp amaze me, so beautifully crafted, for free, discarded, Nature\u2019s bounty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/sealheap.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Awesome heap of seals beside the Santa Cruz dock these days.  They wriggle over each other, and \u201cnobody\u201d\u009d gets that worked up.  Some barking for show, some teeth-baring, but very rarely an actual bite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/stagnarosign.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gotta dig that neon Stagnaro\u2019s fish sign.  Certain things belong in neon, and one of them is the icon of a fish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/eighty.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My neighbor Gunnar turned eighty last week and one of the other neighbors gave him a party.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/lanterns.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exciting to go over before hand and see the colored lanterns, and then it was dark and the lanterns were in full play.  Party lights.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/arrowturn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Markings on cracked asphalt are always an easy photo.  Add in a bird and you\u2019re got a composition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/newt.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We saw a newt up on a Los Gatos hill, not sure if s\/he had slept in this hole or was just hiding in it.  Newts, the way they wriggle, always remind me of the way Deadheads dance, repetitively raising the arms and legs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/tunnelselfie.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As for me, I\u2019ve been working on some Transreal Books productions, preparing some of my backlist books for re-release. Editing, proofing, designing.  I\u2019ll talk more about this in a few weeks when I launch a new Kickstarter to fund the new editions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/gunnarsylvia.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got a birthday of my own coming up, and I can only hope to emulate the example of the eighty-year-old Gunnar, shown here getting funky and way way down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, yeah, I enjoyed the rain and now it\u2019s spring. Love this bank with the exposed root. All the unknown underlying aspects of the world. 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