I don’t know why this tire has intrigued me, but it has. I first noticed the tire it several weeks ago after our super king tide and storm surge at the beginning of the year. That is when it first appeared on the beach where I typically walk. This month, a pretty strong storm decided […]
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Going Outside My Comfort Zone – Gallery Show at Westmont College I take thousands of images but not so much sharing. The past year has been a learning curve “roller coaster” with many struggles taking images, printing and photo editing. After much hesitation, a lot of self-talk and encouragement from others, I finally gained the
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I was motivated to write this post after seeing an article this morning in the New York Times, California Edition, on Earth Day April 22, 2022. I love walking this beach. Today, I can enjoy its beauty. The view at this place would have been a lot different and not as meditative back in 1969
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Outside of my Comfort Zone. I write this at the beginning of 2022 to help me get outside of my comfort zone and share my photos and the stories that come along with the journey. This first journey was the day after Christmas. It was a joyful gloomy week filled with much needed rain. On
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I have been to my local beach several times since the Huntington Beach oil spill and reflecting on Even though I live quite a distance up the coast from the Huntington Beach oil spill, I can’t help but reflect on what has occurred and the impact on “Mother Nature”. Last night, I think Mother Nature
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It had been many months since my last visit to this area on the Gaviota coast. My past life of wondering about and traveling slowed down during the 2020 pandemic closures. By early spring, I wanted to get back to exploring farther away from my local beach and up the coast to Gaviota. Unfortunately, the
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OK… After binge watching YouTube videos for a few weeks now, it’s time for me to stop watching and get to work! True confessions – I am a natural born minimalist. Most likely my largest minimal project was when I sold my big home in the midwest, donated most all of my belonging – including
Such a beautiful morning and the beginning of a new fresh start This photo was taken near the end of the year. For some reason this morning felt different than past mornings for several months. I felt very calm… I had no real agenda today during my daily walk on the beach. Even though a
For the past few weeks, I’ve been watching the progress as the Curtin barge and crew have made progress towards cleaning up and capping the Treadwell and Northstar oil wells on the coast near Summerland. Although I’m not typically a person who watches ship activity, this was different. It gave me such a respect for
Early on in my move to the area I discovered the Gaviota Coast Conservancy. With the organization’s education and their group field trips, I started to learn more about this coastal area. One of my goals is to explore up and down the coast, to learn the history, and to understand it’s diverse and unique
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