Clam Beach, Humboldt County, CA 12-8-20
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Walking in Magic
Prairie Creek State Park, Humboldt County, CA James Irvine trail to Miner’s Ridge Trail My morning started in a little funk today, maybe because I woke up at 4:30 and then had weird, vivid dreams after that. Just felt tired, melancholy, disgruntled. So I was glad to be heading up to the big trees onceContinue reading “Walking in Magic”
Clam Beach 12-1-20
Clam Beach, Humboldt County, CA 12-1-20
Clam Beach 11-28-20
Clam Beach, Humboldt County, CA 11-28-20
Berry Glenn Trail 11-29-20
Berry Glenn Trail, Redwoods National Park, Humboldt County, CA 11-29-20
Metamorphosis
One June morning, these ugly little bugs crawled up out of the lake onto shore. Nasty looking creatures, they would emerge from the water, and then just sit someplace dry for awhile. Until their backs split open and out pops a dragonfly head. Over the next twenty minutes or so, the young dragonfly struggles toContinue reading “Metamorphosis”
Bathing in Beauty
“This sudden plash into pure wildness – baptism in Nature’s warm heart – how utterly happy it made us! Nature streaming into us, cooingly teaching her wonderful glowing lessons, so unlike the dismal grammar ashes and cinders so long thrashed into us. Here without knowing it, we were still at school; every wild lesson aContinue reading “Bathing in Beauty”
A Fire in the Sky
The sun dipped below the far-away clouds, giving us a taste of the spectacle to come. We were sitting on the beach in Cozumel, Mexico, after a day of diving the sublime reefs off the coast. A few days into a dive vacation, spending all your time in and around the ocean, it’s easy toContinue reading “A Fire in the Sky”
Swimming in Wildflowers
Tomales Point, Point Reyes National Seashore, California April 14th, 2018 It’s 7:45 am, I suppress a shiver in the brisk morning air as the night’s chill rapidly retreats from the insistent California sun. I’m looking forward to this morning’s run at Tomales Point, a narrow, jagged, fingernail of land jutting out between the Pacific OceanContinue reading “Swimming in Wildflowers”
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