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While on my morning walk...

11/15/2014

Photo Montage © Paola Berthoin, 2014

What if each and every water plate in every community across the globe said what river our water came from? Could it help to heal the fractured relationship we have to what sustains all ?

Photo © Paola Fiorelle Berthoin

Dew drops on every blade of fresh grass
rising from the recent rain.
How quickly it emerges.

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Image from twitter feed #cawater

Photo© Bruce Johnson showing level of water in reservoir in Butte County, November 14, 2014 Found on the twitter feed #cawater

Ring Necked Snake

11/13/2014

Diadophis punctatus vandenburghi: Monterey Ring Necked Snake

They eat small salamanders, lizards, frogs, tadpoles, snails, insects, worms...

Going down a step...

Good thing that the cracks in my patio have not been fixed...perfect place to live! Lizards abound here as well!

Painting at San Clemente Dam

11/6/2014

©Paola Berthoin, 2014

©Paola Berthoin, 2014

Documenting the San Clemente Dam before it comes down next year. Painting is a work in progress.
Many thanks to Bill McGowan of Granite Construction for making it possible to be onsite while construction work is going on. Click here to see construction photos.

First good rain of the season

11/1/2014

The gutters were full of leaves making it possible to collect a fair amount of rain in a very short time!

Car getting washed! And the 40 year old golden delicious apple tree in back yard getting a saturating drink after the long dry spell.

Painting with Rain I ©Paola Berthoin 2014

Painting with Rain II ©Paola Berthoin 2014

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Paola Berthoin is the designer/creator/publisher of Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed. Her focus is inspiring and educating people about the natural world through the arts. She is available to design your book, create (illustrate and write) interpretive materials for your watershed community, consult for healthy gardens, paint a commissioned painting of your favorite place in the Carmel River Watershed and beyond!

When we allow wildness, our own spirit, to flourish within, we can also respect and allow nature’s spirit, the wild outside, to exist.
- Paola Fiorelle Berthoin

Blog photographs, land art, and text © Paola Berthoin, unless otherwise noted.
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Passion For Place is exquisite. You can feel the River coming off the pages. And the wisdom of the people who belong to it.
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