Seventh hill

[landingtree]

and last hill, for this is our last day of isolation, F testing negative this afternoon. I didn't notice that this was somewhere I hadn't been until looking around specifically for hilltops: a small grassy hill looking down on the airport, like a bald head, mild, pleasant, soggy, with a decades-old Ministry of Transport sign jazzing things up a little by saying Pedestrians only! Beware unfenced concealed cliffs.' I bewared them, which wasn't hard to do since they were all on the other side of gorse thickets.

Back home around Evans Bay slowly in the most beautiful hazy evening light, watching a wide band of mauve slowly descend and concentrate on the skyline, a thin new moon over Mount Vic.

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[leaflemming]

I meant to suggest this hill for your collection! -- I'm curious to know whether it's a relic of the larger hill that was demolished to build the airport, or whether it was created during those earthworks, or what. The whole history of the land around there is a bizarre mix of early 20th C earthquake by-product, reclamation, airport construction, and formations that have been there for much longer.

It was a lovely twilight this evening. I spent it collapsed by the window with Constellation Games, which I've nearly finished & like... a lot, I think, though judgment is suspended pending actually getting to the ending, which I've thought was imminent for about the last hour. We had a reasonably epic game of Root this afternoon, ending in a massive round in which Eva's Lord of the Hundreds moonshot for an attempt at a surprise domination win, abetted by Kate's Otters in "coming last anyway so let there be chaos" mode, with Elle's birds and my crows both perched three points from the finish line. Had Elle's turn been before mine she would definitely have won. But the conniving crows got there before her. Given their ancestral history with the birds, this seemed very thematic.

I'm so glad you're allowed out tomorrow!

[landingtree]

Me too! I hadn't stopped to think how many earthworks there must have been around there. Maybe I'll look into it.

I'm glad you like Constellation Games, interested to hear to what degree in the end! I recently finished his second book, Situation Normal, which I liked a bunch, though read as a page-turner and haven't really stopped to think about the ideas it zings. That Root game sounds great! Looking forward to joining one.

Thank you very much for the groceries this morning, much of dinner and breakfast consisted of them! Also coffee, which has been instrumental in getting me out of bed, let alone up hills.

[sartorias]

More interesting geography, and that pretty sunset sky!

[landingtree]

It was really the best weather!