Central Coast Evan

Set in Sans Forgetica , a font designed to help you remember. It helps keep the brain awake while you read or study. I doubt seriously t...

A row of these plants surround the building where I go for dialysis appointments. I added a picture of a similar plant in a post on Endl...

Not quite flowering, not quite gone to seed. Where most of us find ourselves.

The modern world presents an array of sights that tend not to be seen. One plan, architectural or otherwise, overlaps with another. Some...

After a five year lapse in posting, I wrote something about Thanksgiving. I thought Thanksgiving dinner would be at St. Timothy’s Catholi...

I suspect, or perhaps only hope the day will come when we stop stringing wires in front of otherwise beautiful sunsets. Most of us don’t...

I’ve taken many pictures of this hedge hanging down from a front yard fence. But this one is special. It shows a very satisfied looking ...

On the verge of invisible. Something — a rat I’m guessing, though I haven’t seen any in this area — crushed into the pavement. Something...

The world is full of sights that go unnoticed. A piece of driveway, though perhaps too abstract for the common viewer, demands attention...

Crossing the parking area this afternoon I discovered a remarkable object. A monster not sure what color it’s supposed to be. Almost f...

A struggling patch of ornamental strawberry strewn with white petals near the main door of St. Timothy’s. It seemed to say a great deal ...

I took yesterday’s picture about a week ago, but discovered this plant yesterday just off the beaten path. It’s showing an enormous burs...

I never tire of looking down the throat of these monsters, though I do so at a respectful distance. The presence of spider webs tells us...

I watch the ground a great deal when I walk, and I walk almost every day. Although sometimes I’m forced to wait for a delivery, and when...

It’s hard to see pavement when everything is blooming. But when the blooms weaken and fall, shadows and pavement become something new an...

Something exciting. This is a phasmid, a stick bug as it is more commonly known. This one is blending, or almost blending, with a step o...

The things I see on my way home from Monday night dinner. Sometimes I walk home painfully full, and because of that I believe I see thin...

From a distance these are just colorful splotches on a bush. But the closer one gets, the more amazing they become. They grow into somet...

A similar sign over the doorway says Serving the Central Coast since 1984 . Or at least that’s what I thought it said. I took a step clo...

Flowers are few this time of year, but leaves are plentiful. These are waxy leaves that grab the light and shine it back in unexpected w...

This is a picture of a long in the tooth four-o-clock near the library. Frequently, and for reasons hard to explain, pictures of flowers...

Not just succulents are busy this time of year. Spider webs aren’t only to catch prey, they are also, now and then, part of an elaborate...

For the past ten years, possibly longer — I can’t recall exactly — I’ve been ready for Halloween, sometimes with carved pumpkins, always ...

In 2009, a year that seems almost yesterday, I wrote something about Amie’s mother on Halloween and her “irksome inability to distinguis...

I passed this flower (or these flowers) on the way to dinner at the Vets Hall yesterday. It’s hard to tell if it or they belong to the h...

Hedges seem to have things under control this time of year. There are more surprises in hedges than in carefully constructed gardens. He...

This photograph is two weeks old. In the time it took me to think of what to say about it, the flower and the plant supporting it began ...

In September I posted H Is for Hollyhock to celebrate the first hollyhock to bloom in the garden. It was a new plant for me, though I’d...

This time of year there is still much to see, but far less to be inspired by. Hidden structures become visible. Without them life would ...

I’ve photographed a number of double blooms this year. For example, Four Different Directions , A Bug’s World , Five or Six Flower Names...

My neighbor tells me these are geraniums. We have six or seven pots of them suddenly in bloom. They don’t look at all like geraniums to ...

over a wall, through the church grounds and down to the ocean. Sunset under the clouds on my way home. A world seemingly upside down, wh...