Then I walked through Franklin Square and found a well-camo'd cache.
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| Franklin Square |
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| Perfect |
On Thursday my quartet performed in a chamber concert. We played the complete Hindemith op. 10 no. 2 quartet in f minor. It was very tiring, but a lot of fun, and the audience responded really well - I heard a loud whoop when we finished the last note, and a bunch of people stood up. I'll post a link to the recording on here when it comes, if anyone's interested - it's a fine piece, and not well-known.
Maddy and I wanted to do something nice for Paul, and we decided to make him a carrot cake with cream cheese icing. On Friday night we stayed up really late baking it, and this was the result.....
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| It says "U" instead of "you" because we ran out of chocolate sauce |
We burned the edges and had to cut off some substantial margins, but it turned out for the best because otherwise the cake wouldn't have fit on the plate. We had enough trouble with holes in the thing, and great chunks of it sticking to the pan, and trying to patch it together with icing. Yes we know it looks like a fail, but it tasted good.
Yesterday the three of us hauled the cake up to Marin City again. Paul picked us up and we went out for lunch at a little restaurant among the green hills, and then we all went hiking on Mt Tamalpais. We found out that Paul is actually 73 (not that you could tell, from the way he plays viola and hikes really energetically....)
This is the first time I have been to Marin County. I'll let the photos speak for themselves.
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| Serpentine green |
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| Air force base up there |
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| Through the leafy tunnel |
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| The giantest pinecone |
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| The Greek Theatre |
I was so exhausted by the end that I went straight to bed at 8pm.
- Antisocial Violinist
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