A Cycle of Water and Life

- traces and environs of the Esselen-Rumsen people in the coastal Santa Lucia range of California -

 

Photography by Amadeus Guy (c.2005)     amadeus@redshift.com

 

 

Acorn grinding site - unnamed creek in Los Padres NF

 

 

 

Grinding mortars near Carmel Valley

 

 

 

Brief snow on the upper reaches of Paloma Creek

 

 

 

Winter rain clearing above Soberanes Canyon

 

 

 

 

Tassajara Creek

 

 

 

 

Arroyo Seco

 

 

 

 

Acorns cached by woodpeckers in oak bark

 

 

 

 

Uplands above Chupines Creek

 

 

 

 

Disturbed bedrock mortars - Soberanes Canyon

 

 

 

 

Oak leaf litter in Robinson Canyon

 

 

 

 

 

Carmel River

 

 

 

   

 

Boulders above Ribera Beach 

 

 

 

 

Carmel River Beach

 

 

 

Carmel Rivermouth

 

 

 

South of Point Lobos during a winter storm 2004

 

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Photography by Amadeus Guy (c.2005)