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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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Sending more green to our eyes

August 22, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

This is the Arrow Lakes Reservoir, where Columbia River water is collected and held in Canada under the Columbia River Treaty, for use downstream in the U.S. One of the tell-tale signs of a reservoir is trees having fallen like soldiers along the unstable shoreline from the raising and lowering of the water for hydro-power […]

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A remarkable encounter

July 21, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

I came across this bear skull set on a cedar stump in a selectively logged forest in July, 2015.  Over a foot long, the skull’s front fangs are gone.  The back molars, made for chewing up berries, grubs and vegetation, confirm the jaw of an omnivore.   The stump and the skeleton may both be […]

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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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