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Pasadena, California     August 30, 2014     9:04 pm–10:23 pm     warm and dark     79 °F     short-sleeve shirt, hiking pants, sandals     fast-chirping cricket     people passed by in small groups or solo (some twice—those talked to me)     faint bells from train and dinging from gates lowering     splatter of sprinklers on sidewalk     traffic swooshing by; headlights blinding at times     rapid thumping of helicopter landing on hospital (later leaving)     clanking of gas pumps; motors starting up     Trader Joe’s turned off lights near end     got hungry     stopped to catch up with friends on way to draw