It’s been exactly a hundred years since America’s best nature poet, Robinson Jeffers, raised his famous Hawk Tower as part of Tor House, his home in Carmel. To celebrate this achievement, one of the docents at the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, Susie Joyce, built Hawk Tower out of gingerbread -- just in time for the holidays. This sweet piece of architecture is 28 inches tall. “I used seven pounds of powdered sugar and two dozen eggs for the royal icing stones,” she says of the effort that is almost as impressive as Jeffers’ stonemasonry. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Hawk Tower is a National Historic Landmark, maintained by the foundation and open for tours 10am-2pm on Saturdays. 26304 Ocean View Ave., Carmel.
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