Boots late changes within this timeout

 

gestation is helping, almost ready to begin the Final Finally blog.  

Hilary Barrett:

"This is about natural beauty, like the beauty of a plant, whose form is the perfect, simple expression of its nature. It's also about the way people create images to communicate something of a person's or thing's inner nature."

late changes: Yes to Cat, No to Tom having forgotten Foglost

The ever-shifting course of this river.

For the Record.

Remaining beats 1

1. Tom in Hunter’s guest room, boots off,  Wanda (with Daisy), then Ruth st home. Looks at guest book.

2. Next day. Hunter’s dream, wakes at dawn, leaves bedroom in pajamas.

3.  Hunter patio coffee sunrise. Phone-record elements of dream. Into kitchen, Tom reveal. Tell Chloe.

4. Wanda with Daisy gets call from Hunter with Chloe.

5. Ruth gets call from Wanda.

6. Gil with Ricky and Vette gets call from Ruth.

7. Hunter and Chloe watch coroner vehicle drive away.

8. Barb with Brian, Jan and John on Paso golf course  call from Hunter. Chloe coming home.

9. Daisy with Wanda at Laramie airport.

10. Hunter at Jackie’s having dropped off Chloe at airport. 

11. That night. Hunter in guest room, Tom’s guest book entry.

12.  Next day. Hunter leaves in Tom’s truck.

13. Chloe with Barb. Jan and John on boat, Lake Nacimiento. Chloe answers Jan’s “What do we know about Ruth. Hunter call from crossing west to east of Pecos. 

14. Ruth and Wanda, Ruth’s porch. Re Gil, storm, Hunter arrive.

15. That night., Wanda, Hunter dining room table,.Wine, photo albums, and re Gil.

16. Jackie at home, call from Hunter in guest room. He reads Clem’s and Daisy’s guest book entry marked by a photograph. FLOOR CREAK, enter Ruth and Wanda, about the photo and “about the truck.”

17. Daisy at home.

18. Next morning, leaving Ruth’s in “mom’s car.” Keys to Hunter.

19.  Hunter driving, arrive Gil’s ranch gate. A deer.

20.  Gil on deck, limestone rancho.  Hunter, Ruth and Wanda arrive, intros, into house.

21. Hunter, Gil, the boys, ATV’s at Fort Park. Re land, family, Vietnam.

22. Ruth, Wanda and Maria, kitchen meal-prep, ATV’s arrive.

23.  Jan’s inquiry and John’s response re Vietnam.

Hunter’s Dream

EXT. CAMPFIRE - NIGHT

POV at modest CRACKLING FIRE ringed by rocks. TILT UP  to reveal across the fire a WORKING COWBOY whose face is obscured by the brim of his hat as he feeds twigs to the flame. His silver hair rests on his shoulders.An AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD at repose next to him.  

WHISPER OF RIVER, LOWING OF CATTLE and SNORT OF HORSES we can’t see in the dark sparkled by approximately sextillion stars and a quarter moon. We finally notice what seems the blinking eyes of an owl looking back at us from behind the cowboy, over a shoulder. 

A WOLF’S DISTANT HOWL alerts the dog and lifts the cowboy’s gaze from the fire. He’s Tom, silver beard and mustache, twinkle is his eyes and smile on his face. He looks to the sky and quickly gathering clouds that soon enough eclipse the moon ad stars then drop snowflakes that cover the fire and finally Tom as the last ember of the fire is extinguished.

BLACK for a moment before SUNRISE on the distant mountains we could not see behind where Tom had been. The sun ascends quickly on the snow-covered Big West High Country. Horse and dog tracks in the snow lead from the bare tree with the branch the great horned owl flies from without a sound, toward the cowboy, his black horse and the last few of a dozen head of cattle completing the crossing of the steaming river shallow over and around gravel bars.

After the last cow has completed the crossing, the cowboy turns his black horse to us, takes off his hat and waves it over his head before finally turning anf continuing out of view.

ROOSTER CROW.

INT. HUNTER’S BEDROOM - DAWN