Somewhere
in Monterey
The Collection
If the soft tones of night calm you, if you feel welcomed by the glow of candlelight through the window of an old adobe dwelling, you will enjoy visiting Nocturnes of Monterey County.
People here speak of an enchanted room.
"Somewhere in Monterey,” they whisper, “sometimes in Monterey, appears an enchanted room. Within this mysterious room is a mural. A large, wonder-filled mural." A Mural Lost in Time.
We have developed an enduring fondness for these simple but graceful adobe structures, these
The Chili Colorado Incident: the story of a most memorable meal, as revealed by William Tecumseh Sherman in his memoirs.
Presented here as a very short play.
A whimsical salute to Jo Mora on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
For the eight-year-old in us all.
Planned and Pondered
The crucial importance of The Kiln on the Hill: educated speculation.
“For years the sand spread desolation and ruin under the broken span of the great stone arches, and as the inhabitants about the mission saw the edifice breaking and crumbling they remembered that somewhere beneath the debris were the graves of Serra and Crespi.”
In praise of Francis Rand Smith and the California Historical Survey Commission
Architectural History of Mission San Carlos Borromeo
Monterey, 1850.
A photo, a year, a perspective
Old Books
Plein Air Frames. Art in their own right