Y5 – Day 156 – Still Hot

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Cecilia Steger

Really? It’s hot and humid and the temperature is going to reach 100degrees tomorrow? Really?

Even the mountains will be unusually too warm this week.

It is sweltering and the earth is beyond the point of tipping. Mother Nature is screaming at us and we still go about our day as if the last white rhino didn’t just meet its extinction.

“SAD” climate change deniers say.

“Too bad, I won’t give up meat.” climate deniers AND believers continue to insist on.

The first step in recovery is awareness of a problem. Then, acceptance of the facts. Last, is acting– as in behavior and thought– for change to take place.

First, we become aware we are terrorizing our planet and brutalizing all sentient beings.

Second, we accept we have contributed to this decline and destruction.

Third, we remedy, repair and rejuvenate our habitat, EARTH!

Y5 – Day 154 – Farewell for Now

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Cecilia Steger

Farewell for now to the rustic NorCal coast. As the sea crashes, the fog rolls and the colors wash, the dramatic scenery increases.

Y5 – Day 151 – The Horizon in Mendocino

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Cecilia Steger

In a perfect world, the trees on earth would meet the sky against a watery, silver horizon.

A view from our room at the Standford Inn.

Y5 – Day 149 – Mountain Berry Looking Flower

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Cecilia Steger

It is absolutely outstanding and unbelievable to me how precious, rewarding and gorgeous life is.

Y5 – Day 147 – The Wild West

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Cecilia Steger

I felt I was walking inside a landscape at Bower’s Museum depicting the wild west days of the covered wagon. But, alas, I was atop of Santiago Oaks inhaling the majesty with my daughter V and granddog, A.

Y5 – Day 146 – Desert Blooms

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Cecilia Steger

It took a steep, rugged hike over some dry rock to find artistry in the canyon hills of Santiago Oaks. Thank you to my daughter, V, for sharing this adventure with me. Although the October fires seared the land, nature found a way when the rains came. The sunrise colors and paper textures of the petals juxtapose with leathered or spiny greenery. Vivid against the arid terrain, the desert blooms revealed the grace and wisdom I imagine Georgia O’Keefe sought to convey.

Y5 – Day 144 – The Flower Fields

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Cecilia Steger

Photographs don’t do justice to the enchantment of a sloped field of ranunculi in rainbow rows. Carlsbad May 1, 2018.

From above:Alongside the acres of flowers.

And Below:

Y5 – Day 132 – Spring has Sprung

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Cecilia Steger

The Stellar Blue Jay in all its Spring Glory

Y5 – Day 127 – Late Winter/Early Spring is Here

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Cecilia Steger

Freesias abound in late winter/early spring! Here we have four colors from the garden, the second week of cuttings. Year after year, bulbs repeat their performance, albeit with less and less fragrance each coming season.

Y5 – Day 109 – Time

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Cecilia Steger

I remember growing up on the beaches of Long Island and time stopped as I idly played in the sun – the wet sand and glossy pebbles, hot between my toes. The shore lapping.

Time was still. Joy was mine.

The smell of sultry, humid heat peppered with salty seaweed baking on the beach. The warmth and taste of the briny water.

Seagulls squawking. Horseshoe crabs aground and dying on the shore. Fiddler crabs popping out of holes.

Wildlife scurrying amongst the brush on the dunes by the worn redwood fences. The grasses and reeds rustling. A summer breeze wafting through a corridor of beach below a cliff.

I wake up. I’m startled.

Time is just a blip – yet a continuum. But, only as long as it is held in your mind.

Cecilia B. Steger

Category Archives: Nature