Summer Highlights

My favorite picture from camping

It's been a long while since I've blogged! My last year of grad school began almost a month ago now, and my summer was busy in the pleasantest way. I'll post some of the highlights over the next few days. Here are Here are the highlights of...

Camping

Moonrise

I miss waking up to this:



Views from our favorite beach:

Toot wasn't used to being around so many strangers and felt safe under the picnic bench, which was just as well since she'd bark at everyone who came too close to our campsite!

I thought this doxon looked a lot like Michael Caine...

Summer thunderstorm in the Sierras at about 5 AM



The lightning is at about one minute into the video

A lovely meadow

Natural art

Riparian vegetation upriver

Buddha Teyla

Buddha Chee Chee

Teyla drying off:

View from the dam

A bridge that reminded me of Jo and Laurie from Little Women...

A cove that looked like the Mediterranean

Sunrise on the last morning

I know Teyla is on the left, but I have no idea who is on the right!

Tracie -- Thank you kindly! :) I hope you get to visit the ocean again soon!

Mackenzie's Momma -- Thank you, too! And what happened with the coyotes and the peas???

Pigeon Point Lighthouse

I've been remiss in posting about recent success. Andromache won the Blazing Quill Screenwriting Competition last month, and last week I found out that it's one of the eight scripts nominated for Best Screenplay in the International Film Festival of Ireland!

Enjoy these pictures taken of the beautiful northern California coast on the way down to Pigeon Point Lighthouse from San Francisco.

Half Moon Bay

Fields right up to the water

In February you can see migrating humpback whales off the coast

Surging Sea

Looks like a pirate cove!

Mackenzie's Momma -- That shirt's hilarious! How are the coyotes and the peas?

Deer and Coyotes

A suspicious doe

Living where there are mountain lions and the alleged occasional black bear can make one wary when hiking or jogging in the mountains, but I think I have nothing to fear (hah -- watch me get eaten by a cougar tomorrow) since there is a huge deer population this year. Check out these pictures from one day alone... sitting in one spot for 15 minutes, no less.

A young buck

The A doe who took a while to notice us. If we were hunters we would've had a week's worth of dinner by now!

She sees us

The mountain lions and coyotes certainly have a lot of food out there which will hopefully keep them fed and away from people (especially the former... I've never heard of coyotes eating anyone). That said, it is still a little disturbing to walk out the door and find things like this lying around:

And since the deer are doing so well, the coyotes are, too. The other night I recorded a sound that I hear almost every night (yes, they just did it again as I wrote on this blog).

Coyotes Talking

Mackenzie's Momma -- You and sheep, LOL! I agree, though. Of all the animals I have ever worked with, sheep have been the most freakishly stupid. I think we bred the idiocy into them. That's why we kept our ewe - she was supposed to go to the market but she showed some spunk and spirit and intelligence, which we knew was rare!

Tracie -- Okay, I really need to watch The Lost Boys now!