Pacific Sky

Evening sky over Trinidad Harbor, Northern California. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Farmers Market Day

The weekly Farmers Market on the Plaza in Arcata is a beloved Saturday morning staple. And what better place to spend the day in May when all good people will be called home? Talk about The Rapture!

Produce from Humboldt Bay.

Rapturous face.

Local farmers’ produce, plants, veggie starts, blooming things, honey and greens.

The Rapture! A crazed Humboldt elf frolics on the Arcata Plaza.

Friend Bruce Johnson, on bass, performs with the Compost Mountain Boys.

The produce at the Arcata Market is as much social as mercantile.

The Poem Lady will write original version-on-demand. Your Topic, Your Price.

The Sombrero Ladies sell tickets to win a fabulous vacation, to benefit local causes.

Saechao Farm in Fortuna is our favorite for strawberries.

The Plaza’s own gardens frame and echo the Saturday morning produce stands.

Giant palms frame William McKinley, an American warmonger who inexplicably stands in the center of pacifist Arcata.

Photos ©Ted Pease 2011

Pewetole Reflections

Pewetole Rock reflected in Trinidad State Beach at low tide. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Pink Toes

Stylish beachwear. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Spring Green

Plenty of Spring snow still to melt atop the Wellsvilles. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Farm Truck

Spring planting time on the Wellsville bench. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Country Road

Country road, Sunday walk. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Good Morning, Moon

Sliver moon and morning star, rising over Cache Valley, Utah. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Lichen

Old fence, last legs. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Redstick Marsh

Spring coming to Cutler Marsh, Cache Valley. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Cutler Flood

Spring waters rising in Cutler Marsh, April 2011. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Green Spring

Spring and green come to Cache Valley. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Spring Floods

There’s between 140-180% of “normal” snowpack up in the mountains, and that’s starting to melt and flow downhill, through our yard, flooding the subdivisions foolishly built on the floodplains, and inundating hundreds of acres in the middle of Cache Valley. Springtime as usual, though still pretty chilly, in Northern Utah. (©Ted Pease 2011)

God Gull

A gull takes a quiet moment atop the Trinity Church, Trinidad, California. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Snow Road

Trucks, plows and snowmobiles traverse the winter back roads of Cache Valley. (©Ted Pease 2011)

The Green Line

Mossy coats cover trees in winter along the Trinity River, Northern California. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Green Trees

Mossy maples wait for spring, Trinity County, California. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Tree Garden

Ferny moss coat the trunk of a maple in Trinity County, California. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Winter Sports

Snowmobile art on the slopes below the Wellsvilles, Northern Utah. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Mossy Woods

Trinity County, California. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Dog Day

Lulu watches sunrise. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Old Main

Old Main, Utah State University, March 2011. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Park

Mossy woods, Trinity County, California. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Hens & Chickens

(©Ted Pease 2011)

Houda Cedar

Gnarly cedar above Houda surfer beach. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Old Main Walk

Grey afternoon skies over Old Main. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Houda Sky

Fluff above Houda Beach, Northern California. (©Ted Pease 2011)

Snowdog

Crazed hound of winter... (©Ted Pease 2011)