a mist slowly rising

lost coast. november 2008.

my first vacation as an employed individual, post grad school. shortly after this photo the clouds cleared to a perfectly blue sky, and i remember thinking to myself as i walked along the beach, "this is what my life will be like, now. i can just take time off and go on trips and not have anything to worry about." and i remember feeling so free -- of all the worries of grad school, and unemployment, and living at home. i was completely in the moment, taking pictures of waves, observing the extending coastline stretching north. i was a person on a beach, and that's exactly where i was meant to be.

Stars and Hexagons

Shelter Cover, CA. 2008.

Okay, so this is really the Lost Coast again. But what a wonderful place it is! I can't wait to go back--perhaps there will even be sunny weather for more than two hours.

The lighthouse mini-park was nicely designed, with the unchanged ragged beach still easy to climb down to. Families clambered along, calling out to each other. Even the sun didn't make it warm enough to take off your wind layer.

It's Nice To Know Where You Are

Lost Coast, CA. 2008.

This marker was hammered (cemented?) into the top of a large boulder on the black beach of the Lost Coast. Waves pound beneath it, and will one day swallow it whole. But for now it waits patiently.