hi everyone. well, i knew this day would come. i’ve just been so overwhelmed with the rest of my life that this daily obligation to arrange and take a photo has become too much for me to fit in. it was a great run while it lasted, and i’m sure something interesting will follow, but for now, i feel i have no choice but to say a sad and loving goodbye to STILL blog. thank you for a wonderful 4-plus years. by the way, you may want to check your calendars, and also read the next line.
april fools. see you tomorrow.
wisteria seed pods
shoreview, minnesota
i have decided that alexander calder modeled his mobiles after haphazard arrangements of california giant kelp. prove me wrong.
dried giant kelp
pfeiffer beach, big sur, california
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That DOES look like Calder!
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monterey pines are native to a tiny strip of coastal california that just happens to be some of the most beautiful country in the world. they are also the most widely planted pine tree in the world, having found their way to chile, australia, and new zealand as plantation trees. apparently, they didn’t get the memo. nobody leaves the central coast of california. you don’t emigrate from there. you immigrate to there. come on, pinus radiata. snap out of it.
monterey pine (pinus radiata) pine cones
big sur, california
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Are you ‘still’ in the Monterey area? I have some friends you might like to meet there. They have a nice ranch in Carmel Valley, and their family dates back there to the prePebble Beach founding. Actually, their family built the Del Monte Lodge and the two golf courses there. -John Forsman
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So grateful that was a joke. Love the beauty you gather and offering each day.
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on a low level, in the background of my daily thoughts, i keep trying to figure out what will replace STILL blog when the time finally comes to try something new. as a scientist i have sometimes thought that an electron microscope might be the answer. just keep photographing nature every day, on a white background. except now it would be microscopic nature. if i did that, my daily posts might look something like these seedpods, which are not, despite your lying eyes, highly magnified photos of virus or bacteria cells. they are just sweetgum seedpods from the UCLA campus. and they’ve got me thinking…
sweetgum seedpods
UCLA campus, los angeles, california
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i audibly gasped when I saw these. Such terrible memories of my mean cousin pelting all the girls in the church courtyard with these damn things.
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I think going microscopic would be really cool and unique.
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Some of your loveliest images are backlit like they were illuminated from below while clipped to the stage of a gigantic microscope. This is a brilliant idea.
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these redwood sorrel plants blanketed the forest floor beneath the cathedral canopy of muir woods. i did not take them from muir woods, although i am admittedly the type who might just have tried to sneak one or two. i know that rules technically do apply to me, but i am a rebel whose first instinct is always to break rules first, and reluctantly consider following them later, if, and only if, they make sense to me. when we learned that it was forbidden to take any natural items from the beaches of big sur, steve, my rule following husband, thought to himself, “oh, that’s too bad. it would be nice if mary jo could gather a few things for still blog. oh well.” what i thought to myself was, “we’re going to have to be VERY discreet…”
redwood sorrel
muir woods national monument
You got me!
what a way to start April 1! now i am on my game. thank you so much for all you hard work and wise words-well most of the time!
OK, you made me fall off my chair ;)
Brief moment of panic. Was sipping first cup of coffee as I read and caffeine had not yet made its presence known. And to think I woke up thinking of the date and wondering just how many ways I would be punked today. First tally goes to you.
I’ve only known you for about a year and was feeling panic-y thinking of all the stillblog I would miss. happy it’s just a joke, you funny girl.
I was starting a panic attack even though I knew the date – you little devil you !!!!!
Almost gave me a panic attack! Don’t do that!
Glad I kept reading though. Whew!
You scared me.
Fooled Me! Glad it was April 1st.