You don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows here. This bay tree is in a field between Bodega Bay and Jenner on the California coast. I must have shot pictures of it half a dozen times; it’s always striking. Adaptability in naure. Going with the flow.
This was Louie Frazier riding his zip line when was about 85 years old. It’s a 500-foot cable with a bosun’s chair that he uses to get to his homestead cabin on the other side of the Garcia River (Mendocino County, California) in winter months. Gravity powered. To come back, there’s another tower and zip line on the other side. He’s been doing this for over 40 years. He rebuilt both towers and installed new cables about 7 years ago.
(I’m going back through my photo archives and putting some of them up — what with the new blog design.)
This is the upper of two treehouses, connected to the lower one by a swaying catwalk. I slept up here one night. Check out Foster on Instagram: www.instagram.com/fosterhunting
Note how the simple addition of the panel in front (of a gable-roofed structure) makes it look like an old ghost town building.
(His parents, surfers, have a connection to The Man.) -/
“He’s part of the legend,” says mom. Here Hobie’s getting ready to kneeboard it.
Discovered new shack today, the day after I finished layout of revised driftwood book.