Good Morning All! With the exception of a couple weeks in spring, we have been off the road since November. But today, the gears inside my own little mental touring machine will have to awaken because I leave for the airport in a couple of hours, bound for Nashville. We have some promotional work in town, and between those appointments you can be sure there will be much rehearsing whenever and wherever we can sneak it in.

This first tour won't be normal, but will consist mostly of visits to radio stations and intimate shows for members of their radio audience. We want to play every song off the album for them. OK, now that I'm talking about this, I'm getting excited and think I should go through the clutter in my car and finish the second stage of packing, which is getting my carryon bag organized.

This summer there has been a really long Red Tide in San Diego County. Red Tides occur when there is an excessive amount of a certain algae and, as I understand it, one of the byproducts is a mass production of phosphorous. All the algae has made the water dirty looking in the day time, but at night, on the fringes of the dark sea, the waves glow bright green! It's insanely beautiful and we've gone out swimming in it late at night and, you see that anywhere the water is disturbed by your swimming, or splashes or even in the ripples pushed ahead of a surf board, it glows. When you wave your arm in front of you just under the surface, you can see glowing green trails for each of your fingers. When you swim out past the waves, where the water hasn't yet been jumbled up, the reaction is even brighter and more articulated by the slightest disturbance. Everyone should do this at some point. But don't swallow the water, it's sorta bad for ya. ...and it burns my eyes more than ordinary sea water.

The fog and marine layer of cloud, which exists as a bland, white ceiling in the sky that Southern California calls "June gloom," departed on schedule this year. From the daytime heat to the smell of the sun scorched purple sage, which seems to release its scent with more generosity in the cool of the evenings, each day of late shows every symptom of the season. Now we get to go back to work. And we are all energized with the anticipation.