Stuff like this gives me hope.
#future #artist.

www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The sky darkens. Blue on blue, stroke by stroke. I tell you this not because it matters, but because I’m watching it happen. One shade replacing another, deeper and deeper, until sky and night become the same. By the time I look away I cannot say what I’m waiting for, or why I’m watching at all.

Kay Metz didn’t fuck around.
#artist #art #santacruz #ucsc

jamescharleslyons.com/kay-metz/

This guy with no training captured rock and roll growing fangs—documenting beautiful chaos as it happened. He understood the best shots happen between poses, when people stop performing. 87… proving authenticity beats technique

The secret: show up and pay attention
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

Other than my brief communion with inanimate stonework, it was just another forgettable sunrise in paradise.

#santacruz #sunrise #surfing #steamers #statues #goodmorning #paradise

Surfanomics” isn’t well studied — this is a first-of-its-kind study attempting to estimate the impacts of the surfing economy on a region — but the study’s authors said this data is important to better inform policy changes in the future.
#surfing #santacruz

www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

Salvia clevelandii is the Jackson Pollock of CA natives. Chaotic, uncompromising, and absolutely gorgeous when it decides to bloom-the smell-provokes wild thoughts.
#nativeplants #californianative #landscapedesign #garden #WestSideSantaCruz #AuthenticLandscaping #westsidegarden #santacruzgardens

I’m playing the long game.
Italian style.
#CraftsmanCharacter #100YearsOfStories #WestSideSantaCruz #AuthenticLandscaping #NoFakePlants #RealDirtRealWork #CraftsmanSoul #SantaCruzVibes

“In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn’t be that way, but you can get away with it. But if you’re highlighting this astounding artichoke, it’s got to be an astounding artichoke.”

Michael Pollan
#vegetables #artichoke #gardening #santacruzgardens

“One day he decided that his liking for poetry could not be fully expressed in just reading poetry or listening to poets reading on phonograph records. He decided to take the plumbing out of his house and completely replace it with poetry, and so he did.”
Richard Brautigan
#frenchdrain #sumppump

“I suddenly realized I was in California.
Warm, palmy air
- air you can kiss -
and palms.”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
#palmtree #california #cafelights

“when I become death.
Death is the seed from which I grow.”
William S. Burroughs
#garden #seedlings #fincafiasco

“Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.”
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
#garden #inmygardentoday #artichoke #fincafiasco