Photo by Kevin Cole:        Big, Bad & Ugly Surf Contest 2009

Photo by Dennis Young:        Morro Rock

Photo by Malcolm Riordan:        USCG Surf Boats

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Peregrine Falcon image on banner by Cleve Nash

Art Talk by Jayne Behman

It is an unseemly sight to see paintings of palm trees in Central Coast fine art galleries; not so strange for galleries in Palm Springs or Hawaii where the palm grass plant is iconic.  Wyoming galleries boast of cowboys, and Indians are the art-lure in New Mexico. So, it is quite befitting that our galleries tout quaint and colorful street scenes, unusual shaped trees, cows roaming hillsides, the local birds feeding in our estuary, big and small fishing boats, and many more images that make Morro Bay, Cayucos, and Los Osos picturesque towns. Read More

Genie's Pocket by Jeanie Greensfelder

Venice

Wanting to be somebody,
somebody who sips the
Piazza San Marco from the Caffè Florian
in the company of Byron and Balzac,
I jostle with people and pigeons,
then leave, feeling like a peasant. Read More

Great Shots by Jerry Kirkhart & Steve Corey

Our photo editors bring you some of their favorite coastal images for the month. This month's featured local photographers are Cleve Nash, Cheryl Strahl, Alice Cahill, Ken Bondy, Gary Powell, Mimi Ditchie, Mike Baird, Rob DeGraff, Pam Link, Elizabeth Haslam, Joyce Cory, Sandy Harris, Michelle Maani, Anita Ritenour, James Crawford, Don Quintana, Ashala Tylor, Bill Bouton, Dagmar Collins, Steve Corey, Jerry Kirkhart, Don Henderson, and Linda Tanner. See More

One Poet's Perspective by Jane Elsdon

Lavishing itself upon us without restraint, rain has nourished our hills and valleys to an emerald sheen and countless shades of other greens.  Wildflowers swathe meadows and hillsides with a glory of colors that  awakens our hearts to the joy that is always there inside us, whether we keep in touch with it or not.  And we understand what Ralph Waldo Emerson meant when he said, "The earth laughs in flowers."  It surely does this spring.   Read More

Opera SLO by Kathryn Bumpass

Die Walkure, the second opera in Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, introduces popular culture's most familiar operatic image, the large woman with spear and horned helmet. This is Brünnhilde, the chief Valkyrie, who with her eight sisters form a guard of warrior women whose duty is to bring fallen heroes to Valhalla, the home of the gods. This opera also includes the most familiar musical number in The Ring, the famous "Ride of the Valkyries," often performed as a brilliant orchestral piece and often parodied as a vocal number. Read More

Our World Underwater by Linda Stedjee

In her recently-published book, "Our World Underwater," well-known Morro Bay photographer and artist Dorothy Cutter conducts a photographic tour of a world most of us will never see.  Cutter's stunning images of exotic underwater landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them are the result of many years of work, and over 1,500 dives in diverse locations around the world. Read More 

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Photo by Howard Ignatius: Valencia Peak