CSRA - Candlestick Point State Recreation Area

This visit to Candlestick Point was actually the suggestion of a visiting brother who remembered one trip to Candlestick Park as a kid.  We were looking for a place to just catch up for a while, and it proved the perfect place a nice walk and then a pleasant place to sit along the water.

Candlestick Point State Recreation Area

Along the way we saw off road vehicles, fisherman, and picnickers all enjoying the day.

Candlestick Point - Wikipedia

Candlestick Point - California Beaches

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NM Little Bighorn Battlefield

 

Another stop on the Lewis and Clark Trail trip was the Little Bighorn Battlefield Monument.  Standing in the middle of nowhere the monument is an exquisite remembrance of the event and the many that lost their lives there.

NM Little Bighorn Battlefield

Little Bighorn - Wikipedia

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CSP - Fort Ord Dunes / Marina State Beach

Drive along Reservation Road, past the Monterey State University Campus and you arrive at Marina State Beach  and the Marina Nature Preserve.

Marina State Beach

Head south along the beach  and you arrive at Ford Ord Dunes State Park, one of the newest in the system developed on what was once a US Army base in operation from 1917 to 1974.  

Fort Ord Dunes State Park

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Lastly look out to sea, for there is the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.  I put three checkmarks on my to visit list with one stop with my brother on a recent sunny November day.

  

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

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Windsong

I used a wool feather hanging I had done a few years ago and added a windcatcher.  The triangle dancing up the side seemed to fit right in and the flower was made from the cuttings of the triangles.  Just plain geometrics seems the right way to fill in the rest.  The quilt is 48x60, just big enough to cuddle under on a cool fall evening.