Friday Calm

The calm before the storm, or after.  The calm despite the storm.

That is the San Andreas Fault in the background, behind the adobe arcade of the San Juan Bautista Mission (the mission in Hitchcock's Vertigo).  The source—and evidence—of so many earthquakes, yet mostly a calm stretch of valley planted with artichokes, misted in blue.

image:  Christie B. Cochrell, Fault