DON BLANDING
"Mostly California"
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1948
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 158 pages
Poetry, Illustrations & Decorations by Don Blanding
Dedication:
To you, my friends, many and varied, old and new,
Casual and intimate, and to a few
Who might think you are enemies... but are not,
And to you, dear ghosts, and to you, the treasured lot
Of half-friends, could-be-friends, as long Tomorrow Road extends
Into the half-glimpsed years that shape ahead
I dedicate this book in gratitude for the thread,
Varicolored, many textured, dull or gleaming,
Which you have woven into my living, my dreaming,
My small triumphs, hopes realized, laughter and tears,
To make the gorgeous tapestry of my years
In California
Acknowledgements to Ralph Parker of Science of Mind, Rexford Sharp of American Bard.
Contents:
| To you, my friends, many and varied... This Might be Called a Preface No Sudden Love Random Treasure California, Portrait by a Lover Gnat and the Sequoia Sequoia Wisdom For Catherine Question Hearts West California Sundae Small Boy and the Artist Late-Made Friend, California California Boy, Seaquence Falling Stars A Question of Bravery Candid Camera, Los Angeles San Francisco Hollywood and Vine West Born Ivory Player The Immediate Wine From Broken Stones November Road Old Sycamores Tears of the Moon Talk with a Tree Sequoia Sketch I'm Glad You Asked Me Ghost Town Romance Aspirin See-Saw Sea Suggestion to Tourists Candid Camera, Palm Springs |
Carmel-by-the-Sea Shasta Wordachrome in Sibilants, Hollywood The Slip Chart Aunt Cally in Callyfornia Aunt Cally on "Spendin' the Day" Aunt Cally on "Free an' Equal" To the Dwellers in Tree-Toad Trellis Mountain Talk Sierra Peaks ...And Walk Understandable If Celestial Punctuation How Big is a Heart? California Boy, Desert Sequence Might of Silence The Hidden Seed Guards Web of Commerce Cultists City Park The Faceless One Within These Borders Kindly Veil Dear Neighbor Redwood Forest Food Riots Obsidian Mask California... Open Country The Ubiquitous Dandelion Such is Glory Diet Rule to End all Diet Rules |
Bubble Bath Unwritten Law Sunset Wines Carmelody Sketch Still Life, Pioneer Kitchen High Moment The Desert is Never Lonely Gay Spot ...Or Do They? Creamed Chicken Tia Rosa My Kind of Day Beauty Knows Seascape For "Revisers" Joshua Trees Dyes Moon Songs "California, Here We Come!" Smoke in the Mountains Eternal Questions Candid Camera, Santa Barbara Enough Trees in Our Hearts Good Night California Montage Out There Maverick Land Maverick Branded Maverick, Harnessed and Driven California Speaks You're Welcome |
Illustrations:
| Frontispiece Montage Dusk Lace Cypress in Mist Sequoia Small Boy and the Artist Sea Boy Tree in Storm Ivory Prayer Old Sycamores Talk with a Tree Ghost Town Romance Mount Shasta |
The Slip Pepper Branch Mountain Talk Celestial Punctuation Desert Boy Desert Silence Procession of Palms Poinsettias City Park The Faceless One Pepper Lace Obsidian Mask Acacia |
Pioneer Cabin High Moment Peacock Girl Tia Rosa Joshua Tree Dance Forest Fire Eucalyptus Manzanita California Speaks Eucalyptus Song Aloha, Adios, Until Again |
Notes:
The Aunt Cally series was written for Aunt Cally.
To the Dwellers in Tree-Toad Trellis was written for Marcus and Ruby Lytle.
Tia Rose was written for Tia Rose.
For "Revisers" was written for C.C., H.H.J., E.H.G., F.W., N.L., F.G.,
H.H., D.B., E.B.Y., B.M. and M.D.
Eternal Questions was written for Frank Palomares.
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