Wood Mint and Grass Acrylic Print

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This flower, which I have been told is called wood mint, is fairly common in the forests of California's central coast. In reality, it's only a couple of inches tall and it has a slightly sweet herbal-minty smell.

I made this image sometime during May 1996 in the meadow of Carmel's Hatton Canyon, which at the time was threatened to be destroyed by a proposed freeway bypass. Fortunately a few years later the project was abandoned and the right-of-way was transferred to California State Parks for permanent protection.

Photo Copyright James B. Toy.

In the fall of 1959, Mr. Toy entered this world at a place called Carmel on California's Monterey Peninsula. Nine years later his family pulled up stakes for the rain-soaked city of Salem, Oregon where he never quite fit in. When he was 12, he and his mother viewed an exhibit of photographs by a Salem newspaper photographer, which inspired him to take his first photography class. During his teenage years he gradually developed his eye for composition and his skills with light and exposure. Though he did not pursue photography as a career, he has continued to document his observations of the world on small frames of film. In 1984, Mr. Toy and his wife Heidi returned to the Monterey Peninsula where his heart belonged. In 1997, on a bit of...