"To live is to fly"

--Townes Van Zandt

(Point Lobos,  Monterey)

"If you don't have new eyes, the landscape stays the same."

--Chris Dingman

(Big Sur)

"And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing."

--Bob Dylan

(Big Sur)

"Every man’s dream is to get back home.
But he still goes walking on down that road.
Looking far and wide for something close to the bone."

--Chris Dingman

(Big Sur)

"I was made to love magic."

--Nick  Drake

(Big Sur)

"Now that you know who you are, what do you want to be?"

--John Lennon

(Berkeley)

"The devil made me do it the first time. Second time I done it on my own."

--Billy Joe Shaver

(Mt. Diablo)

"No one knows you better. Your dreams are your best friend.
No one’s gonna tell you how the story ends."

 --Chris Dingman

(Alamo)

"And I shall drive my chariot down your streets and cry, 'Hey it's me, I'm dynamite and I don't know why."

--Van Morrison

(San Ramon)

"The bells of God they ring in you."

--Chris Dingman

(San Ramon)

"I ain’t gonna wear a long white robe

so don’t try to put one on me when I die."

--Chris Dingman

(Wild turkey, Lafayette)

"Everybody knows that you can't shake hands with a fist."

--Guy Clark

(California coast)

"Days up and down they come, like rain on a conga drum. forget most, remember some, but don't turn none away."

--Townes Van Zandt

(Berkeley)

"Saturday sun brought people and faces that didn't seem much in their day. But when I remember those people and faces, they were really too good in their way."

--Nick Drake

(Nicasio, Marin)