Surf’s Up!

12-foot Pacific swells roll in from the northwest to slam into Elk Head, Northern California.(©Ted Pease 2013)

Baby Eggplants

Fall bounty at the Arcata Farmers Market. (©Ted Pease 2013)

Rio Dell Farm

September crops from Rio Dell’s Harmony Plateau. (©Ted Pease 2013)

Lavendar Bunches

Bundles of lovely dried lavendar. (©Ted Pease 2013)

Sleeping Boats

At the end of a long day, boats gotta sleep, too.

The fleet at Woodley Island, Eureka, California. (©Ted Pease 2013)

Tuna Ted

A nice couple of albacore from a tuna-fishing trip 50 miles out of Eureka. This is not your mother’s Starkist tuna-in-a-can.

Wow

Sunset off Trinidad.

“Fixed”

And once the surgery is healed, I’m ready for water sports! says Stella.

Sushi

This is how to eat ’em really fresh.

Lobstah

The crustacean of the Other Coast, fatted and then consumed on my return home to Maine this week. Thanks for a lovely evening, Bucky.

Daaaaad!

Stella, at 13 weeks, at the beach.

Frenetic Kinetic 2013

 

 

 

 

FOR THE GLORY!

The annual semi-controlled insanity “For the Glory!” that is the Kinetic Sculpture Race launches on a beautiful May day from the Arcata Plaza. Hundreds turned out to send the wild human-powered machines on their three-day race over roads, dunes, beach, Humboldt Bay and hills. See accounts of last year’s Kinetic Frenzy here, with story on the race’s history.

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Stella Sprawl

Poor puppy just can’t relax.

Ivy Outhouse

Burnt Ranch, California

Dig It!

Big sister Sadie gives Stella! beach lessons. ©Ted Pease 2013

Burnt Ranch Store

Burnt Ranch is a community of fewer than 100 souls on Hwy. 299 east of Willow Creek, on the Trinity River. ©Ted Pease 2013

Hey, Stella!!!!

A new dog added to the family doesn’t happen that often. Stella, a 12-week-old “Lab-something,” joins Sadie. She’s fearless and adorable (duh. she’s a puppy). Our sixth dog.

Seastacks

Trinidad Bay, California

April Evening

Sunset over Trinidad Bay, California

Clayhead Ted

Oooooh, nooooo!

Toe What?

Sadie

 

Greenleaf

Flat Day

A quiet afternoon off Elk Head.

Summer’s Promise

Last year’s flipflop is a harbinger of summertime to come. 

Trinidad Town Hall

Lookout

The lookout from Elk Head across College Cove.

Hey! Gotta cookie?

A boy, his dog and their beach.

California Crossing

Looking forward to my next crossing into California.

December 30 Beach

It’s “cold” in NorCal (45 degrees) on Dec. 30. But pretty nice.

Art!Art!Art!

. . . is what a seal says. We disturbed this guy’s year-end sunbathing (and molting) on Indian Beach this morning, Dec. 30, 2012. I'm not fluent in seal, but he wasn’t talking about any stinkin’ “art,” I know that much.