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Sat [[strikethrough]] July 31 August [[/strikethrough]] Aug 1 1970 (cont'd). Arline brought us 6 or 7 kinds of Japanese food from Yonkers. She tried my pickled radish - the only person really to appreciate it. Who really appreciates a new rose? The setting moon? my drawings of the slopes of Burnt Head? The grey surf drawings, the new large painting? And so it goes, beginning with pickles! By gaslight I worked on the new large ptg. And THEN IT RAINED! Thunder, lightning - and a heavy pour that lasted 25 minutes, coming in mightily from the south, flooding the floor upstairs. And into the night, brief flushes of rain, sometimes heavy, around 2 am thru the slightly open window by the bed, I felt a cold north wind blowing in.

Sun Aug 2. The roses, all speckled with rain holes & rain stains and bowed over, the gypsephilia [[gypsophilia]] bent to the ground, the grass wet - what a good rain. Last night by flashlight at the window I saw silver in the rain. Wrote letters to Margaret, & to Preis re Hawaii job. Tough letters.
[[margin]] hike to Burnt Head (chanterelles!) & to Lobster via Crow's nest (Chanterelles) [[/margin]]

Mon Aug 3 - Too much of a day. Full of people, friends. Mo Oberman & Al Zelon [[Zalon]] dropped it [[in]] at 1030. Herb came to borrow staple gun. Mary Zelon [[Zalon]] & Arline came after lunch. Toured house & garden. Frances Kornbluth ...talked... Mr & Mrs Barney (of Portland Mus.) to buy a ptg. (Manana). Bud Kornbluth to give us mackerel & cod. Isaiah Wyner, more mackerel. Tony Pearce. No time for painting. I did not expect it.

Tues 4th A big dinner for Obermans, Zalons, McCartins, Kornbluths. Noodles with chicken & veg. Animated gang, sharp & loud chatter, good company. Spent all day marketing & picking vegetables & cutting up food & frying it.

Wed 5th a good day. windy, sunny, even cold, with Zelons [[Zalons]] & Obermans to L. White Head for lunch then to Squeaker Cove. Good dikes & seams there - found a good looking white mica-calcite rock. In evening, anagrams & games with Zalons & Tony & Jo Pearce. Bright, lively people, stimulating company. A very enjoyable evening for all.

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Note re: below: The correct spelling seems to be Zalon. See caption at this link, which identifies Al & Mary Zalon, as well as the Obermans mentioned throughout this diary: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cualumnirelations/8504626208 But first two mentions definitely seem to be spelled Zelon. Sometimes he seems to spell one of the names as "Zelon" and sometimes as "Zalon". Note to reviewer, please take a look at this and see if you think that he does, indeed, have inconsistent spelling or if this is just a handwriting issue and that he really is using one spelling.