PORTRAIT OF A LIGHTHOUSE
Beginning in 1855 and continuing for thirty-six years at sundown each day a lighthouse keeper climbed the winding stairs of the Old Point Loma lighthouse and lit its fresnel light to guide ships to the entrance of San Diego Harbor. At 422 feet above sea level it would have been in the perfect spot had it not been for low clouds and fog which often obscured the light. In 1891 a new lighthouse began service at the bottom of the hill. I prefer the old one. I go up there at least once each year to try to find a new way of seeing it.