Light/Breezes

Light/Breezes
SUNRISE AT DEATH VALLEY-Photo by Tom Cochrun

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

A WORLD APART

TORO CREEK ROAD
This new walk offers great vistas. You might find it hard to believe it is only a mile or so from the Pacific Ocean.
"It's the California I grew up in" was the comment from a
couple of hikers.
It's cowboy country to me, like scenes
from the old westerns.
You can find it off the Pacific Coast Highway
between Cayucos and Morro Bay.
Whatever you are dealing with today,
take this walk in a peaceful valley.

 Accompanied by the sound of birds, the creek and wind through the trees.

 Post card scenes of California that many do not know exists.
 Below, the sun splashes off Toro Creek.



 An old ranch homestead.
 A combination of cattle country and agriculture.
Below, old gourds wait to enrich the soil.

 Typical to ranch and farm country-a kind of museum of
old implements.

Probably some life left in this old boy.  Just waiting till it is needed again. 

 I particularly like the frame below.
Five layers of mother earth
including a fault line.
See you down the trail.

4 comments:

  1. That last photo is a good one. But I also like the use of the barbed wire in your pony shot.

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  2. Bruce-
    Thanks. I'm glad you noticed that. I was working on it, and actually wanted a better focal length, but....

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  3. Hi Tom, Re the shot: "Five layers of mother earth
    including a fault line". It's very interesting how the water flowing from the height of the hills carve up the landscape and carry silt all the way to the ocean. I would really like to know if anyone could calculate the annual volume of earth (silt) washed into the oceans at billions or perhaps trillions of miles of coastlines. Call me crazy for wondering. Janos

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