About once per month I meet with some friends from the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Palo Alto for a retreat day. Yesterday we met at Villa Maria Del Mar Retreat Center in Santa Cruz. The retreat house is right on the beach and it was a wet stormy day with high surf. Surfers found it to be perfect weather. I sketched these from under a tree on the Villa Maria Del Mar property. I watched the thunderous waves crash against the rocks and send up plumes of white spray and foam while the ground beneath my feet shook. Such restless power!