Spotted at a local greenhouse: tiny iridescent frog nestled inside a tiger lily.
Catching up: Vacation in California
Happy belated solstice, everyone. We’re at the turn of the year – days start getting shorter and the heat really cranks up here in Indiana. I had good intentions of posting daily about vacation but obviously that didn’t work out. Flying to California As previously noted, we had some problems getting to San Francisco – but nothing like what was to come. (Cue ominous music.) San Francisco We already weren’t planning a lot of time for San Francisco but, with the additional delay, we basically just had one day.
Inspiring, short documentary about Jadav Payeng, who has been planting a forest since 1979 to save the river island of Majuli from destruction by erosion.
Bumblebee on purple coneflower 🌱
Visiting Tor House and Hawk Tower, home of Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una, was an amazing experience yesterday. I still can’t believe I was there, got to sit at his writing desk and climb to the top of Hawk Tower (second picture is the view of the Pacific from the top).
Nevertheless, I’ll be looking for you tomorrow, Jeffers.
Day three. What can you say about these god-trees, the redwoods?
Highlight of day two of our California vacation was the sea lions hanging out, watching the humans at Pier 39.
California vacation day one: Travel hell.
Holy crap what a day – and it’s still not over. The Indianapolis to Dallas flight was delayed by two hours. Once we finally landed in Dallas, we ran to the connecting flight gate but missed it by less than five minutes. Then we spent two solid hours in the American Airlines customer service line. But the good news is that there is a flight going to San Francisco at 10:45pm.
If all goes as planned, I am three days away from visiting Muir Woods, so I’m reading this in earnest. Very good so far.
