Lugnasa Harvest Moon
Spent another evening at Montview Elementary with Jon, Ruth and Gabe. We ate a light supper of foods selected at King Sooper (grocery store chain here), then began to make more prints. Ruth has gotten into the spirit of found objects used as surfaces for print making. She bought some things at Goodwill to print: a leaf shaped metal serving dish and a small metal kitchen utensil that looks surprisingly like a giraffe when inked. I printed another spoon, gray-white this time. Gabe made wheeled objects with something like tinker-toys.
The whole divorce matter, which moves like boulders pressed underneath a glacier, slowly and with a lot of friction, has begun to move into more hopeful territory. But the pace. Lawyers love proposals and counter proposals. Sometimes it feels like the lawyers have oppositional defiance disorder. If you say yes, I say no. If you say up, I say down. Very frustrating. Not to mention expensive. Still, the glimmers of a positive solution appeared yesterday.
After the printmaking, Jen picked up Ruth and Gabe. I headed over to I-70, turned onto it going west and drove into this amazing sunset. The mountain silhouette in the evenings often looks like a Potemkin village, a prop set against the backdrop of a falling sun. This night it was something.
Kate was in Evergreen at the Beau Thai restaurant, waiting on me for a ride home. She had completed her first class in an 18 week Hebrew class at Beth Evergreen. After I picked her up, we got on the familiar Colorado 74, one of two main highways, 73 and 74, that intersect in Evergreen. At the base of a long hill there were three fire trucks and a police car parked in the middle of the road.
The elk crossing sign had been flashing yellow as we descended. This is the month of the rut so elk behavior is not as predictable as at other times. When we moved around the nearest fire engine, a yellow and chrome vehicle from Evergreen Fire, I looked to my left and saw two black helmeted, yellow uniformed fire fighters bent over, pulling. They had a large elk doe by the feet and were dragging her away from a Toyota Rav4 that had hit her. Shattered safety glass dotted her path across the highway.
Sad.
