Sunday Photo, 12/31/23

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• Hope people stayed away!

• To state the obvious, this coastal flooding is a preview of "normal" after sea level rise due to climate change due to global warming. We will have to abandon those areas in the next couple of decades.

• I absolutely agree with you, BigSurViews. I like my spot. My spring has been non-stop for over 75 years, and as long as it flows, I can handle the rest.

• The power of the ocean is amazing

• November Surf
  by Robinson Jeffers

  Some lucky day each November great waves awake and are drawn
  Like smoking mountains bright from the west
  And come and cover the cliff with white violent cleanness: then suddenly
  The old granite forgets half a year’s filth:
  The orange-peel, egg-shells, papers, pieces of clothing, the clots
  Of dung in corners of the rock, and used
  Sheaths that make light love safe in the evenings: all the droppings of the summer
  Idlers washed off in a winter ecstasy:
  I think this cumbered continent envies its cliff then….But all seasons
  The earth, in her childlike prophetic sleep,
  Keeps dreaming of the bath of a storm that prepares up the long coast
  Of the future to scour more than her sea-lines:
  The cities gone down, the people fewer and the hawks more numerous,
  The rivers mouth to source pure; when the two-footed
  Mammal, being someways one of the nobler animals, regains
  The dignity of room, the value of rareness.