October 10, 2012  Bandon, Oregon

From "Ocean Vista" cottage where we are taking an R & R.  The view is dramatic including a "colony" of sea stacks varying in size from 8 feet to 80 feet high and 5 feet to 100 feet wide, maybe more.  They are remnants of the cliff that rises 80 feet above the sand beach when it once extended further west.  These sea stack rocks appear to have been arranged by a zen master gardener.  Each one is in perfect relationship in size and position to the others.  It is a wondrous example of how natural forces create art that no human hand can improve on.  There is something mystical yet simple about this phenomenon.  You see it everywhere in nature but this oversize rendition that has taken thousands of years to produce is one of the more dramatic examples.  The arrangement appears as  if it could be no other way, yet obviously it could be arranged in an infinite number of ways and still give the same impression of being inevitable:  Large, medium, small -- blocky, narrow, rounded -- near, wide, overlapping -- clustered, separated -- light, shadow -- all in perfect harmony.  Powerful forces at work over long spans of time create wonders that we call beautiful.