The California Chronicles is the true story of sublime nature writ large across the West, and writ small on the page. The concept is simple: the three of us—landscape architects Robert C. Glass and Darryl S. Jones and city planner Eliot Y. Rose—chronicle their journeys into California nature, both around the Bay Area and further afield, and keep a blog with sketches, poems, and prose from these excursions. Instead of describing our experiences with nature in terms of numbers like latitudes, longitudes, miles hiked and elevation gained, we distill them to images and poems. In doing so, we aim to restore a spirit of discovery to an age where every inch of the terrain is mapped by GPS and guidebooks.
