Blythe: a post for Mary
Our friend Mary was worried about our sanity, when finding out we were spending the night in this rather pathetic city (sorry, Blythe people), even though we were literally only…
A Swedish artist observing America
(By: Dinah and Steve) We met Dinah’s Swedish friend, Lisa Liedgren, in Joshua Tree for coffee where she was in the midst of an artist residency at BOXO. (See more…
The passage of time
Saturday, Dinah and I attended a gathering of college friends from my fraternity at UCLA, most of whom I’ve not seen in decades. Indeed, some since the 1980’s. It was…
The old rock and the ill fortuned serpent
Morro Bay (Central Coast California) has a big rock, where evidently a hawk and a raven once destroyed a two-headed serpent-monster called Taliyekatapelta (say it aloud, I dare you) as…
Eight miles of mating seals
What happens when three pregnant seals land on a quiet beach? In 1991, three elephant seals landed at Pierdras Blancas, on the central coast of California, for the first time…
Why is there plastic everywhere?
Why do we need this much plastic to grow these strawberries? To be honest, they didn’t even taste that great even though they looked quite beautiful. How is it that…
Texas, meet California
We woke up at our inn in Trinidad and shared breakfast with a Texas couple on their 30th anniversary visiting the redwoods to see the big trees (“we don’t have…
Eugene to Redwoods
Gone from Family and Eugene and off to California. We assumed Eugene used to be Old Growth country. Wrong. The Kalapuyan people used controlled burning to manage the area as…
Grove of the Titans–pondering the overstory
I’m obsessed with the overstory in the redwoods, that there is a whole ecosystem living above what we can see in the top branches of these trees (300 feet up!)–where…