by Louie Ferrera | Oct 19, 2026 | Meditations, Nature
How do you write about something as elusive and etherial as light? The Impressionists painted it, Ansel Adams photographed it, countless musicians have attempted to depict it through melody. I’m often at a loss for words when attempting to describe the golden light of...
by Louie Ferrera | Oct 11, 2026 | Meditations
Just outside Yreka, CA in the shadow of majestic Mount Shasta, Louie Rd. runs east and west on either side of Interstate 5, it’s a lonely ribbon of asphalt that cuts through a treeless landscape of sere grasses and sagebrush. Many times I’ve whizzed past here at...
by Louie Ferrera | Sep 20, 2026 | Friends & Family, Music
It’s August of 1974 and I’m standing at this bus stop, not a bus stop in the traditional sense mind you, but a bus stop just the same. After a few minutes of waiting, what looks like an old school bus painted in wild psychedelic colors comes rattling up to the curb....
by Louie Ferrera | Sep 15, 2026 | Meditations, Nature
The Kortum Trail winds along three miles of some of the most spectacular coastline that Sonoma County has to offer. On clear days the northernmost point of Point Reyes National Seashore is visible far to the south. At various times throughout the year, humpback and...
by Louie Ferrera | Sep 9, 2026 | Meditations, Nature
This lazy river is slow and silent like the seasonal shift that has just begun. The signs of autumn are subtle at first, there’s a slight but noticeable difference in the angle and the quality of light which begins to take on a golden glow. The wind is different too...
Glad you included the vineyards, the lovely contrast of large, bright-yellow leaves with the dusky purple of grapes peaking out…
Just for S&G I looked up Louie Road on the map. It’s kinda half way twixt Yreka and Weed. Just…
Great. Imagery and descriptions, Louie. How far did you go/
Lovely. Seems like quite a trip. Love your word selection. So descriptive
“It was alive and took over our bodies as we swirled around each other” Around, and sometimes through! Comin’,comin’,comin’, around….…