You step outside your door 9PM at night just like you have a hundred times before. You walk 20 feet and then stand rooted at what you are seeing. The harvest moon is shining its luminescence thru a stratified cloud cover, all framed in the spindly tops of a group of Juniper trees. And capturing that beautiful moment in time, it renews me.
An inspiring tree at the west end of Dunes Street in Morro Bay, CA.
Friday morning, July 28th 2017, a commercial fishing boat, the Point Estero, wound up stranding itself on the rocks of Estero Bluffs State Park, north of Cayucos California.
As of today, the following Sunday afternoon, the boat is still stranded.
Edit: It is now November 6th 2017 and the boat is still on the rocks. There is now a hole in the hull and the boat sits partially submerged in the water. The owner has relinquished his rights to the boat and various bureaucratic agencies are pointing fingers at one another as to what is to be done, and who is going to pay for it. A sad end for an ocean going vessel.
Walking the streets of San Luis Obispo well before the SLO Thursday Night Farmers Market , I couldn’t help but notice the bright, inviting sidewalk looks of El Matador on Chorro Street.
Time prevented me from going in and sampling the cuisine, but next time, count me in.
The Cow Parade SLO County produced a herd of colorful and stylized cows auctioned off and raising a quarter of a million dollars for local charity.
This girl is hanging out at the SLO plaza:
As a friend of mine says, California Style!
This cutie haunts Harmony, California:
Some of the animals appear to have been genetically altered, as this cow bear in the town of Los Osos, California:
Not real sure how I feel about that one.
Under early morning light, looking west down onto Morro Bay California from the top of Black Hill.
Following a dinner of Red Snapper at the Sea Shanty in Cayucos California, walking along the beach afterward the sky decided to do this. And of course, catch me without my trusty Nikon. So what can a guy do but grab his smartphone, shoot away, and hope for the best.
These pacific sunsets are in danger of becoming habit forming.
The Los Osos Oaks State Natural Reserve park protects 90 acres of coast live oak trees (Quercus agrifolia), some up to 800 years old. The park was established in 1972, and is located just south of Los Osos California off of Los Osos Valley road. A number of trails traverse the park for your hiking and viewing pleasure.
Morro Rock (aka “The Gibraltar of the Pacific”) is a landmark feature on the central California coast. Formed around 23 million years ago as the plug of a now extinct volcano, it rises 581 feet from sea level. In 1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese explorer, named the rock as ‘El Morro’, which means ‘the crown shaped hill’ in Spanish. The rock was an important navigational aid for mariners for over 300 years, and at least two tribes consider it a sacred site. Today it stands guard over the entrance to the sheltered bay of it’s namesake city, Morro Bay (pop. 14,950). Morro Rock was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1968.
Montana de Oro is a park located on the central California coast starting at the southern end of the small city of Los Osos. After walking the paths while watching whales spout and breach, seals swimming south a ways out from the shore, and porpoises gliding thru the water, it was then proven to me that you don’t have to go to Jamaica for a great sunset. At the rate things were going, I would not have been at all surprised to have seen the green flash thrown in as part of the sundown finale.
