<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font>for bill</font></div><div><u><br></u></div><div>he is felt</div><div>in the whispering cold</div><div>of a thousand scenes</div><div>the warmth of summer suns</div><div>in shadows that sail</div><div>up Sonoma Mountain</div><div>the crimson fire</div><div>of coastal sunsets</div><div>the green silence</div><div>of Armstrong Woods</div><div>in the bird fest </div><div>of the Bay Front Marshes</div><div>in the tight angular landscape</div><div>of the Valley of the Moon</div><div>in the wind shaped hills</div><div>of the Merced Hills</div><div>in the slithering stream</div><div>of the Russian River</div><div>in the tight light vistas</div><div>of Knights Valley and Mark West</div><div>in the ruggedness </div><div>of the Mayacamas and Mendocino Highlands</div><div>in the patterned rolling</div><div>of Alexander Valley</div><div>in the sulpherness</div><div>of the Cedars</div><div><br></div><div>communities vital pulsing</div><div>he is felt </div><div>and remembered</div><div>in all these places and more.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- Richard Retecki</div></body></html>