joel preston west

Sunny Cove, Santa Cruz

Chesapeake Bay was warm but not welcoming in the dusk light. Too many unknowns in its beauty. No one out besides two boys with a flashlight and a helicopter in the distance. The hot breeze made little white cowlicks in the tide on its way to my delighted hair and the water [...]

I installed a little curtain on my skylight so I don’t wake up at dawn anymore, but there are a couple little cracks that let light in and today I awoke to this miraculous scene which only lasted about a minute. During that minute, most likely, some sort of ancient tomb was opened up or [...]