Don Quixote: Photograph by Will Tenney

Don Quixote

The headland jutting out into the Pacific which supports the Point Reyes lighthouse is composed of some fascinating rock formations. Layers of sandstone, cracked over eons by the forces which are driving Point Reyes further north year by year, have been discolored by incursions of iron-rich deposits. Many of the formations have a pictorial quality about them. This little picture reminded me of drawings I have seen of Cervantes’ character Don Quixote astride his horse, Rocinante, exhausted after doing battle with fierce and awesome windmills. This image also reminds me of some of the surrealist drawings and mono prints made by a friend of my parents, Roger Bolomey, in the early 1950s.