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the weather I yearned for when I was a kid on Kauai! For supper: spaghetti with mussels that Pete Boehner had brought me yesterday - large ones, some red, some blue. A bowl of lettuce & beets & cucumber. To bed at 9 pm - it was so cold there was no point in staying up. 

Wed. A dusky brown bird crashed into the window this afternoon & fell into the grass by the mint, apparently dead. *It crashed only a few inches from the spot where some fine down of some bird [[strikethrough]] had [[strikethrough]] is stuck to the glass. 

In the garden all day are flycatchers, sparrows & a very small warbler with dark eyes. Brought in the tools & wheelbarrow, & the hose, & did some of the laundry. It is still very cold; today there's a all-over drizzle over all all; [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] The annual end of summer bouquet, on porch, in the fog and the drizzle. & hot there later.

In the drizzle & fog, to Burnt Head, thru wet woods. From the point, I could see only the  twisting line of [[strikethrough]] who [[/strikethrough]] breaking water.. It was the only visible sign of the sea. Took 3 photos, with lens wide open. Picked rosehips & hops on way back. Supper: tongues-&-cheeks steamed in plum sauce, Malabar spinach in beancurd sauce, noodles. Mike dropped in at 9 to say he would not be going back Sat. 

The sky cleared, miraculously, around 9 & the stars were sharp, the air very cold, from the N.W. the moon was full, over the 2 spruces in the N.E. sky.The artemisia shone. To bed, a cold bed - at 11, with the wind streaming thru the little top opening of the bedrm window. 

Thurs Sept 17 '70 - What a good day, what a sad day that brings a year's end with it. Very sunny very windy and cold. At 10 went to rocks above Gull Cove via Burnt Hd. to sketch, to think, to write, to have a last fill. My theme is always there, the endless landscapes of rocks & sky & trees and the sea, in limitless & surprising combinations - never exhaustible. Stayed there until 2, then back to P.O, [[strikethrough]] lun [[/strikethrough]] then made a sandwich to take to rocks below Zero's for another hour there in the sun, watching the lowering sun. Packed all evening.