all things sun, sand & sea

the umpqua in august


garden dahlias


yaquina head in fogust


clouds in monmouth


sun in p-town


poppies in eugene


the sea at cape arago


the sand in bandon


the wind in bandon


wind effects in bandon


fogust at cape perpetua


surf in the intertidal


shells in hand


sea-side flora


sea-side clifs

upcountry in August

This is the first adventure in Maui with my mom this last August. As always lots of fauna photos, clouds & flora integrated into landscapes. The first ones are from the very small but nicely located sun yat sen park on the kula hwy.

These were found in the garden of the winery at Ulupalakua Ranch. Pineapple wine & flowers? win. They apparently started making wine with pineapples way back when their vinyards were young. The result is awesome.

I did make it!

Now to update about two weeks later. My mom got me the most fabulous chiton-esq lei & I made my dress which came out fabulous.

The whole family

plus curtis
and hillary!

Buddy of course was happy for sun and me to be home.But he was not happy when I packed up later that day for a summer at the marine lab.

san francisco

Way back when during my last real spring break my mom and I decided to do a San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Monterey thing with the intention of going to MoMA, beard papas (which we eventually got to in San Jose), warm sand, rocky shores, the aquarium (for intensive kelp hunting and nudibranch creeping) and also for a bit of cannery row tourism.

Here are some bits from San Francisco which was first on the list...


MoMA: poodles, a baby, josef albers, the skylight and wall sketch.





Bits and peices from the city:
China town's best colors, a rather large spider, blue sky and various buildings and "oo!"