Last week the winds were strong along the San Diego coast but very calm inland around my house. I set off for one of my favorite state parks, Torrey Pines, not expecting that I would not be able to keep a 22 by a 16-inch paper on my easel. I hid from the wind by sitting in the midst of the boulders that separate the road from the beach. The rocks dominated my view of the beach, and I liked how they mimicked the shapes of the bluffs that are further down the beach.