While I’m at home with travel plans on hold, I’ve been sifting through old photos and picking out my favorites. It’s a nice way to revisit memories, find inspiration in older work, and (also important but perhaps less exciting) get organized.

I took film photographs with my old pentax 35mm throughout high school and college, but stopped taking photos for a few years in my twenties. I had gotten really into making artist books and comics, so I was drawing most of those days, instead of taking photographs. Around the time I started thinking about going to graduate school, I decided that I wanted to start taking photos again, and made the switch to digital. These photos are from a trip to California in those early grad school days.

I was visiting my friend Ben, and we met up with his good friends Claire and Gabe, and drove out to Point Reyes, to the lighthouse and beach. On the way we saw a few cars had pulled over next to a farm, and followed suit. A cow had given birth just moments before. We watched as the mom cleaned the baby gently, gave it a little nudge and it took its first steps. It really is magic. Can you imagine being able to stand up when you’re less than an hour old?

I remember this whole trip as being magical. I love the northern California landscape with all of its micro climates. The fog enveloped us, showing us bits and pieces of the world in full detail, and blurring out the rest.

One day I hope to get back here for another visit.

All photographs by me, Becca Grady.