january coastal weekend

near manzanita, ore. firepit in side yard, view of water from one angle. returned to cloud and leaf and hiked up neakahnie mountain, stood at the water for nearly an hour saturday, watching the undulations and looking to the mountain where we sat a set of hours previous. ribboned throughout was some internal negotiating between striving and stopping; snow on 26 on the way home. we saw a group of people standing at the edge and then a stream of emergency lights and sirens. a woman sped off the road flipping her truck, saved from tumbling down a 75 ft ravine and likely oblivion by a well-placed tree