January 16, 2008
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Moonstone Beach, Cambria CA – Long May You Run!
Rollin’ down that empty ocean road. Gettin’ to the surf on time. Long may you run. Long May You Run by Neil Young
While walking along the beach around new year’s, this guy came running onto the beach with his surfboard in hand. He was probably in his 50′s with curly white/silver hair. He said a cheerful hello, quoted Neil Young and then ran off, jumped on his surfboard and off he flew.
Comments (13)
Ha! What a crazy and cool experience.
I love Moonstone Beach, did you have fun? Isn’t it nice and relaxing there? I went there one weekend to stay in one of the motels along the drive and they were empty so they upgraded me to a front room with a balcony/patio and an ocean view. Loved it.
California is such an experience unto itself…there is this amazing connection of so many to that beautiful Pacific of yours…surfers…so few in NY’s Atlantic…fabulous shot…even more fabulous, the story!
Sounds like one of those interesting moments it’s so cool to actually experience. My social studies teacher in 11th grade was in his 50s, big though (but nice) guy who would randomly without warning miss class, even if we had a test that day, to go surfing (or so I was told by other students).
~S
Could even be 60′s, which I am fast approaching….smiles….never surfed well…tried but failed as a teen in Florida. GREAT PIC!
I love this little story, and particularly that he quoted Neil Young as he passed.
Well I am fast aproching as well
I am almost at that 1/2 centry old. I wish I could see underwater better I would probley try it.My son did the snorkling and my neiace as well untill she saw a shark that convieanced her she better get out of the water. Beautiful picture. Have a blessed day.
Awesome pictures
The Signature Of A True Human Is The Smile He/She Brings On The Face Others.
LonelyPoet
I think in my previous life I was a fisherman. Why does the ocean have such a pull on me?
Today on the radio I heard the song “Brandy” by Looking Glass. Though I heard that song a thousand times I still found myself completely absorbed by it. So weird.
I’ll try to post a picture i took yesterday of… well wait and see. I think you’ll find it interesting.
That’s pretty great. Sometimes, when I’m feeling credulous, I wonder if those random things people say are weird messages from the universe. Normally I don’t believe in that stuff, but sometimes the idea of it is really kind of nice.
(I just read the above comment about “Brandy”. For whatever reason, that song puts me in such a good mood I can’t even explain it. I finally put in on my mp3 player… Along with Afternoon Delight. Yes – I am a DORK.)
ryc: I find my pictures are almost always reflective of my mood, somehow. On another day I could go home and get nothing but sort of cheerful images if I was feeling a different way. I guess the thing for me is that I’ve been noticing those days are getting fewer and farther between. (But I do also blame it on winter – at least a little.)
Do your pictures change with your mood? They must.
I think the quote is from Chuck Close.
x.g.
long may you run…very nice. i’m a neil young fan from way back. what a nice thing to randomly way to someone.
so glad to meet you. california seems like a dream to me.
~ lea
that’s a nice comment you left. i think we have something in common, for starters, and probably even more than we know. the part about it being cloudy and grey instead of the ongoing everlasting blue. i love a rainy night too. guess that’s why i like ol’ neil’s songs so much. they have that touch of deep sadness, not to mention that snarly guitar that just takes you out there. he’s such an old warrior.
The world has it’s best quotes on shuffle.
Tim’s California; Surf and vineyards.