Nature, environment, and a little philosophy
A late summer outing to Santa Rosa Island Water, wind and sunlight are the prevailing elements out here among California's Channel Islands. All is scoured, bleached, or blue. Look at aerials of the outlying islands, Santa Rosa and San Miguel. Can you see the long, parallel dunes stretching across the islands like filaments? The dunes …
Choose a Friday evening in any season. Work’s loose ends are tied but a busy weekend lies ahead: a family birthday; a gym class; volunteering; dinner with friends. But there’s still time for an adventure. The car is packed: two people, a tent, sleeping bags and dinner already made. Take the Eight East. In twenty …
Last winter, after eight rainless years, California's drought finally ended. In San Diego, it rained what felt like every week, for several months. The hills flushed green then orange with poppies, the desert bloomed, the reservoirs refilled, the rivers flowed. We learnt that there were waterfalls in the mountains. In early March, in an extraordinary …
Stars, like salt. 