The Spooner Ranch House, the first portion built in 1892, is today the headquarters of Montana de Oro State Park. I'm always on the lookout for reflections, and I spotted this one in Islay Creek, where its waters pooled before entering the sea at Spooner's Cove. As I crouched low, next to the pool, the reflected house was upside down and backwards from the way the "real" house looked when I glanced up at it, sitting on a bluff above me. Here, I've flipped the photograph and reversed it right to left. I think the ripples in the pond have given the scene more the look of a painting than a photograph.