we were born 6 days apart so sometimes we celebrate with a little getaway. this year, we went to the tide pools in cambria, near san luis obispo. it's a beautiful area, one i've never really explored, and we enjoyed it pretty completely without accomplishing much more than eating and walking.
one day, we went to lunch and sat down right next to ray's cousin and her husband (and their friends), who are from sonoma county. quelle coincidence!
they were vacationing too, so we walked around downtown SLO together, revisiting a few favorite haunts from their college days, including a wall decorated with gum. so much old, grey gum! it was totally great. we were just in time to see a group of kids and their teachers chew some and add it to the wall as they passed through.
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| between a wall and a sticky place |
every morning we walked around the tidepools near our hotel. one day it was windy and freezing, the next it was warm and summery. here's a poem about the windy day -- just a quick little ditty:
[a wilderness of waves on the long horizon]
a wilderness of waves on the long horizon,
endless agitation stirs endless agitation,
nature's spells spun together
form disorder's worn face --
all lunar perversion,
all wind and coercion,
erosion an echo
digging depths for the wind,
tissue my body at the edge of the world.
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i could not navigate the tidepools gracefully. i was so awkward at it that the snoozing sea lions 20 feet away didn't seem threatened at all by my presence. ray of course was stealth and at one with nature, didn't wake them for obvious reasons. at least i was wearing a big grey coat, so i probably just looked like one of them. i guess, just another way to be at one with nature?
witness the similarity:
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| me on rocks (vertical) ... |
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| sea lions on rocks (horizontal) |
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