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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Standing at Pismo Beach

February 7, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

How to describe the light that erupts along the central coast of California? From the oak-studded ranch land around Pozo, where my mother grew up in the shadows of the Los Padres National Forest, I climbed over the Cuesta Grade through the Santa Lucia mountain range and dropped down to the Pacific shore. There, I […]

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At the end of the road

January 31, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

La Tortue huffed and strained her way up Redwood Road on the outskirts of Napa, California, right to the end of the road. Here, I found my old friend and fellow-writer Robin Lewis, who lives with his wife Lynne on an old family farm amidst the birds, deer, coyotes and wild foxes. Redwood Creek flows […]

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Pockets of Agates

January 25, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

The El Nino storms hit Klamath, California hard on Thursday. La Tortue trembled in the force of the wind. Rain pounded on the roof, waking me in the dead of the night. Miraculously, I lay warm and dry. (Thank goodness I am getting too old for tent camping.) For the next several days, I watched […]

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Redwood Majesty

January 21, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

I parked La Tortue beside the pristine Smith River in Jedediah Smith State Park last night, a preserve of old and second-growth redwood trees. Today, I walked in a grove where fire had swept through hundreds of years ago; many of the oldest trees were scarred by the flames, but continued to adapt and even […]

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Reaching (for) the Pacific Ocean

January 19, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

January 19, 2016: I woke this morning to rain pelting on the roof of the Rialta van — thankfully, I was dry as a bone inside. A powerful El Nino storm has swept in from the Pacific Ocean. Given my location at Bullard’s Beach State Park in coastal Oregon, nothing stands in the way of […]

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La Tortue and my hero Neil

January 5, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

Neil is my mechanic for the vehicle that will power my trip to the redwood forests beginning next week.   The 1996 Rialta 21 ft. camper van needed a little work, including a multi-function switch.  Too bad Neil can’t install one in my writer’s brain:  it’s a challenge to remember all the small packing details […]

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About Eileen

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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