The Sacred Planet: Notes from Big Sur
Several years ago, I managed projects and designed hardscapes for a landscape company involved in native plant restoration for private residences along the Big Sur Coast*. Most of the homes were on the ocean side of Highway 1. The properties often ran to the very edge of the cliff and had no fencing to prevent people from accidentally falling the hundred feet or so to the rocks and water below. The absence of any type of railing did insure that there was a spectacular, unen
