Live Music

Despite the cold and wet weather of yesterday, the famed Tuesday night music event on the town square in Healdsburg still brought out a lot of people.  Not as many as a sunny, warm day would produce but a fine crowd in a fine mood drinking fine wine and having a fine time.  Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings opened the season and for two hours the skies cleared and music ran like water through the square and down the side streets. 

                                Roy Rogers at work.

Today the skies are dark again, rain is expected for most of the day, the gas fireplace is on and Cooper and I are curled up on the couch, enjoying the excuse to stay at home and do nothing but read a good book.  Speaking of which: I am reading "Invisible Bridge" by Julie Orringer, published this year.  It takes place in Paris around 1939, just as Hitler is rising to power in Germany and thus is impacting all of Europe. The main character is a young Hungarian Jew and a student in Paris. It's a big novel and very good, the characters are well defined, the narrative is excellent and I recommend it.  I find it oddly engaging, not in a block-buster way but in a quieter, more intense way.  You are carried along not just by the story and the interaction of the characters but by the darkness that you know will come because of the time and place.  I have read about half the book so far and on a dark day like today it is the perfect companion.

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