Catching up at work today consumed the entire day and most of my evening leaving no time for photography. I made this image earlier in the week at the top of my 700 foot climb to the ridge over Avila Beach. I am pictured next to a cell phone tower building/graffiti canvas. Jeanine has been on a writer’s retreat in New Hampshire all week enjoying the solitude and recreational outlets of a friends lake house to work on finishing her memoir cookbook. It occurs to me as I complete this, my 5182nd post in as many days, that I have become something of a writer myself. Assuming an average of 200 words per post that makes a total of 1 million words. According to Amazon’s great Text Stats feature, the median length for all books is about 64,000 words. The figure was found through looking at a number of books’ text stats, until “Brave New World”‘s 64,531 word count landed in the exact center of all books–50% of books have fewer words and 50% of books have more words. This means that I should be reaching the end of my 16th book any day now. I think my father, the author of two books himself, would have been both impressed and amused by this statistic. I suspect it is true what they say though; even a monkey at a typewriter can produce a novel given enough time.