20 results for "Stephanie Taylor"
California Sketches: Point Reyes shellfish bounty faces a shutdown
Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 12:00 AMIt's early morning on Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco. Oystermen push an old wooden boat into low tide and leap aboard. Their leathered faces expressionless, lost in thought, their hoods pulled tight: it's cold. Thei...
California Sketches: Shelves harbor unseen spirits
Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 12:00 AMWhat is it about books? Books contain the kinetic power of possibilities. Gathered on shelves, multiplied in old stores and stacked in libraries, unseen spirit emanates from each. Wisdom and knowledge contained within a room full of books could ...
California Sketches: Winter birds are a magical partnership of wings and water
Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 12:00 AMFrom the dark a startled crane rises, a specter with wings spread wide, glowing in a near-full moon rising. He is my reward for a patient afternoon watching and listening to birds.
Cloud of worry hovers over a creative lifestyle
Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 12:00 AMI worry. Each day I'm bombarded from all directions with new worries, some of which are improbable, and in the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction category, just darned hard to comprehend. If these worries were physically manifested, I'd have...
Op Images: Soaring over the Valley, time slows to a crawl
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at 12:00 AMA pilot stands in front of a sleek wooden propeller and turns it by hand, as if the whole plane were going to fly by a tensioned rubber band. The engine turns over with a throaty roar as the propeller spins faster and faster.
California Sketches: Beauty flutters past in winter migration
Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 12:00 AMWe see them dropping out of the sky by ones and twos. Surfing thermals, they've been spotted by pilots at 12,000 feet.
California Sketches: Water flows south, aiding a thirst that is boundless
Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 12:00 AMThe Tehachapi Mountains, viewed from the ascending slash of the Golden State Freeway at 70 mph, is hardly my idea of a beautiful landscape. Rising from the agricultural abundance of the Central Valley, these bleak, brown, steep hillsides are a v...
California Sketches: Along aqueduct's path, a desert bears fruit
Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 12:00 AMAt the genesis of the California Aqueduct near Tracy, a tumbleweed bears testimony to the truth that lies south. To the west of Interstate 5, parched golden grass covers desolate hills, broken only by newly planted cherry orchards. To the east, ...
California Sketches: Tangled Delta's tides ever shifting
Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 12:00 AMThe air is hot, still, silent. The water's surface flawlessly mirrors sky and tules, a dual image of calm that conceals a world of conflict. From the west, tides flow in and out, pushing and pulling – salt water vs. fresh, exotics speci...
California Sketches: Fountainhead of the Valley is found at Shasta
Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 12:00 AMOne fine spring day in 1875, John Muir hiked to the summit of Mount Shasta. In awe, he watched the weather change. "Storm clouds on the mountains – how truly beautiful they are! – floating fountains bearing water for every well; t...
