Foggy Musing: When Fog Envelops the Coast

(Point Reyes Lighthouse. Photo: Library of Congress)

There's something about the way California coastal fog envelops the landscape -- the cypress trees, the waves, the hillsides -- that makes it feels as though I've been transported to somewhere new. And when it recedes, pulling back like blanket, it reveals that I've been in the same place all along.

(Highway One, Northern California. Photo: Library of Congress)

(Norther California coast. Photo: Library of Congress)

(Shasta-Trinty National Forest. Photo: Library of Congress)

(Shasta-Trinty National Forest. Photo: Library of Congress)