I left the Pacific coast behind this week and it got me to thinking about all the sunsets I’ve seen since August and the beginning of my coastal sojourn. There’s something about a good sunset. Sometimes it’s the classic view. Sometimes it’s the people we’re with. Or the little birds digging for one last bit of food before darkness falls. Or the way the fading light turns a tree into a sculpture. Sometimes, it’s the peace of a day ending on a good note as the sun slips away. There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same….
Year: 2017
Weekly Update: Jan 4, 2017
It’s a new year, and yet I’m still staring at the same old rainy skies. What gives, world? I can’t complain, though, this is the first rainy day in a week. It’s just that it’s my last few days on the coast and I really want to walk on the beach without getting soaked. Tomorrow… San Simeon, where I was last week until Friday, proved to be a pretty cool place. A stroll along the main drag in Cambria provided a lot of window shopping and lunch, while a drive up the coast brought the wonders of mating elephant seals…
2017: Day 1
The upside of celebrating New Year’s a few time zones early (somewhere between Greenland and Nova Scotia, virtually) is that I got a good night’s sleep and was up early enough to catch what sun we may see today. Since it’s my last day in Morro Bay, I walked over to the Heron Rookery. A fence keeps the riff-raff away so a zoom lens or binoculars are the only ways to really see these blue herons high up in bare trees. And now it’s time to go: pack up the trailer, break down the site, and drive away. But not before…