Pine needles, bluffs, the sky and the sea

Writers, I am told, are oft counseled to write about what they know.  Sage advice for any creative endeavor.  Subjects, whose beauty calls out for artistic rendering, can be distant, or as closely known as the rough spots on your own skin, or that quirky smile of a loved one. The Torrey pine tree is native to only two places on earth—the California channel…