MOMENTS THAT MATTER

THE REACH

Solitary fisherman on Moonstone Beach, Cambria Ca.

REEL THOUGHTS

WATERMARK

    WATERMARK is an extraordinary 92 minute visual odyssey that spans the globe and reminds us in every image how inextricably linked humans are to water.  

     Canadian documentary filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky have created an extraordinary work that is captivating. It is stunning in its scope and beautiful. Scenes are majestic or powerful and so well captured they prompt audible gasps from the audience. WATERMARK is a film to see, either in the theatre or at home on a good screen.

JUST BEING PRESENT

   A public expression of gratitude to Lana for her artist's palette creation on our back slope.

   Frequent readers are familiar with the work. She has created a space filled with a couple dozen variety of blooms, drought tolerant too, that is an aerial playground for butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, beetles and other airborne denizens of the California coast. Orchestrated with wind chimes it is a perfect retreat for being present in the moment. It is a place of beauty, nature and transcendence.  

SCENES OF A STROLL

 A recent late morning stroll along San Luis Obispo County's Bob Jones "city to sea" trail was picture perfect.

 A FIRST EFFORT

   Bruce, aka The Catalyst, likes to experiment with recipes.

A few weeks ago he published his adventure with a coconut cream pie.  It "spoke to me," enough so to compel me to bake my very first pie. I'll do a couple of things differently next time, but it got nice reviews, none-the-less. Thanks Mr. T! Who'd ever think I would bake a pie?

   See you down the trail.

WILD THOUGHTS

WILD IS...

     Relative isn't it? Your wild could be my tame.  Defying convention, breaking the norm, pushing boundaries may be a staple of creative expression or political conviction or a departure into that area of shades of gray where "either/or" cease to exist.

     Madness, revolutionary, progressive, renaissance; they all cluster closely on a spectrum. Sometimes getting out of the lines leads to transcendence. Other times defiance of the
norm means aggression. 
     And in the long line of the hall of time, who can say
with a sense of permanence which it is or even where wild becomes convention?

      "For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

Edward Abbey

A NORTHERN KUDZU?

      If you've visited the south you probably saw Kudzu, an 

invasive vine like specie that covers everything in its path.

Barns, walls, poles, fences, old cars or farm equipment are all swallowed by the advance of Kudzu.

      Well, Cambria may have a rival.

     This wild vine seems to be a little more laid back than the Southern Kudzu, but our varietal is spreading nonetheless.

      I've done a limited bit of research but I've not found some one who can identify it.  My best guess is California wild grape or a pepper vine.  If you know, please share it with us. 
      See you down the trail.