Close Encounters

Above are more flat-tops that I painted while at Mountain Water earlier this week.

Last night we rented Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Spielberg classic in which Devil's Tower features prominently, which is why Samagra recommended I see it. The film came out in 1977, and, weirdly, I was in Wyoming that fall, not to visit Devil's Tower, had done that sometime in the 60s, but on a long fishing trip with parents and future husband. A remake of Close Encounters today would be so simple with iPhones – no banks of computers, no paper maps, no movie cameras, no instamatic film cameras, no dial-up phones, no flashlights (free app for that, too). In the movie, François Truffaut's character conjectures that all the people trying to get to Devil's Tower were "invited." Where do you go from a flat-top mountain? Apparently, into space. Isn't that what I said about the "ok plateau" theory too? My future, space…