“In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.”

                                                                                                                            Virginia Woolf
      In late June 2020, so aware of memories of last June......Christine here visiting, a walk in Muir Woods, ferry ride from Oakland to San Francisco, SFMOMA and lunch at Slanted Door, the Monet Late Years exhibition at the deYoung, sharing tea in the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, painting watercolors in the Tilden Botanical Garden, Hans Hoffman exhibition at BAMPFA, and so much more.

      Now sitting by the raised vegetable beds and herb garden, alone and attuned to specific details all around me......the orange blossoms on the Thunbergia vine, the scent of lemon blossoms, bees sampling salvias, and hummingbirds darting here and there, the late day sun moving across the sky, and time passing.

Dalloway Day, 2020

“All the same that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park...then these roses; it was enough."

                                                                                               Virginia Woolf,   Mrs. Dalloway

     Celebrating Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway on this day, June 17, 2020. 

During the current world wide Covid-19 epidemic, it does seem that one gets lost on what day it is.  One day follows another.  Is it Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday?  Yet.........here in mid June there is indeed the sun breaking in the east's morning sky, long and leisurely walks under blue summer skies, and white roses in the garden............it is enough.