by Louie Ferrera | Feb 27, 2024 | Nature
I’m sitting here at Doran Beach with my eyes closed, deep in meditation and listening to the waves in stereo. In the absence of sight, sound is all I have so the sounds of the waves become intensified. I’m hearing four distinctive sounds. First there’s a woosh as the...
by Louie Ferrera | Jan 7, 2024 | Nature
Heading out through the forest today, the journey is the trip. It’s a slow and deliberate stroll, I’m breathing, listening and seeing with eyes wide open. The air is redolent of winter, rains have given voice to the creek that flows below me as I walk upstream. The...
by Louie Ferrera | Dec 6, 2023 | Meditations, Nature
Last Monday was an absolutely stellar fall day so I decided to take a hike at Annadel State Park in Santa Rosa. Annadel is one of the crown jewels of Sonoma County parks. It has diverse ecosystems, many hiking and biking trails, a large lake, creeks and abundant bird...
by Louie Ferrera | Oct 1, 2020 | Nature
The water in Bullfrog Pond is olive green and still. The breeze, ever so slight, is just strong enough to push a few leaves across the surface; small vessels who’s destinations are unknown. As I approach the lichen spotted and weathered picnic table from where I am...
I wish I had your confidence, Louie… I can’t say that I see too many “Good Guys”, and the ones…
I hope they don’t start turning on each other… let’s keep the negative rhetoric down … nose to the grindstone…
That’s so cool! They’re here in the Willamette River and the Delta Ponds, but as much as I walk the…
So sweet! I love those river otters!
Yes! I enjoyed this writing, and the commentors' notes as well. "We played the music and the music played us"…