Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
~ Hafiz
Cows, Villablino, Spain 2006
07-12 Sol Shine
As you grow older, you’ll find that the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.
~ Zachary Scott
Chuckwalla, Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Yuma, Arizona 2008
07-11 Sol Shine
Light tomorrow with today.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Bass Harbor Lighthouse, Acadia National Park, Maine 2007
07-10 Sol Shine
Oh, I’ve had my moments, and if I had it do over again I’d have more of them. In fact, I’d try to have nothing else – just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
~ Anon.
Creosote Bush with Raindrops, Tucson, Arizona 2010
07-09 Sol Shine
Nothing is worth more than this day.
~ Goethe
Peacock Feathers, Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona 2015
Heceta Head Lighthouse
I zoomed down to tour Heceta Head Lighthouse before it closed for renovations (it hadn’t yet opened for the season when I visited the area in early May). There were many similarities with both the Cape Meares and Yaquina Head lighthouses which I also toured recently.
The standout feature for Heceta Head is that the assistant lightkeeper’s house is still intact (the head lightkeeper’s house was demolished in 1940 when the light was automated). Each lighthouse required a crew of three; a head lightkeeper and two assistants. The head lightkeeper lived with his family in one house while the assistants lived in a house of the same size that was divided into a duplex. The lighthouse, residences, and storage buildings comprised the light station.
The Heceta House (as it is now known) operates as a B&B wouldn’t it be lovely to stay there someday? And then I checked the price, yikes! Ah well, visiting for the day was still enjoyable (and definitely closer to my price range).
Cape Creek Bridge
Thistle Close-up
Heceta House, Assistant Lighthouse Keeper’s House
Lighthouse Trail Sign
Heceta Head Lighthouse, illuminated 1894
Rocks Whitewashed by Pelagic Birds
View from the Trail
Heceta Head Lighthouse
Fresnel Lens Close-up
Cape Creek Cove
Looking North from Hwy 101 to Heceta Head Lighthouse
07-08 Sol Shine
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
~ Beatrix Potter
Balloon Fiesta, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2006
07-07 Sol Shine
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
~ Flora Whittemore
Colorful Doors in Barrio Viejo, Tucson, Arizona 2007
07-06 Sol Shine
And if you are lost enough to find yourself…
~ Robert Frost
Saguaro blossom, Tucson, Arizona 2011
07-05 Sol Shine
Life has to be a little nuts sometimes. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of Thursdays strung together.
~ Beau Burroughs (from the movie Rumor Has It)
Bobcat, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2015
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