-death by landscape- pt II: color me crazy, big south land

invading pampas grass frames the sea 

big sur. it's the colors. every where you look the land is saturated; vibrant, psychedelic. old and wild land, it seems forever untamed.

angular; dynamic; intertwined. 

the water blinding me with her aqua beauty

sunlight rippling over purple veins of sand, pfeiffer beach. (thanks heather ;) xo)

the greenest greens and damp shady mosses blaring with the most potent reds of poison oak. i'd lay in my bag at night, scratching in the way a paranoid nursing mother would, convinced my face was hot from a growing rash. surely i had gotten into it somewhere unknowingly, right? wrong. i did enjoy many bug bites, however. 

i can see a rainbow

c'mon folks, let's do one as a fam.

hiking; the oldest redwood grove around...old old, wise living growing.

you drive into the park...it's dark and wooded, until you get to our campsite, that is. it was the one grassy, dusty, hot, sunny spot. we loved it. the stars at night were crisp and flashing. i laughed as lincoln stared and stared at the glowing specks, grabbing at the blankets and jabbering away at what he was seeing---the crickets singing the warmest, rousing summer chorus from the oaks and grasses. i was deliriously happy.

flowing into the ocean

ocean

meets forest

climbing up a ridge

mckay falls?

big sur river? we kept on hearing about this "gorge" the locals just love. it turns out we only made it part way; it was upstream a bit further and requiring much boulder/river hopping to reach the final destination. 

to the arid hill tops, where the fog does not moisten, indicative of what the land might have been without the ocean's influence. the landscape a beguiling mixture of flowering yucca, agave, redwoods, native walnut...

settin' with the baby a spell; it was our nursing bench. we'd watch other campers come and go.

many nursing breaks...

...calling it home.

i'm attempting to post quickly...i have another big journey in store and i am not one to post retroactively. i like to reflect on mostly current events. :p