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My standard place to watch the sunset after walking a long stretch of coastline
My camera lets me share it with you : )
Shoes prohibited : )
Explore #443
It is so peaceful at sunset,
They show all dreams to be met
In it, memories are also held
There in your heart, your fears are quelled
As the sun dips low in the sky
It reminds you of all those times you flew high
And with those memories of soaring above,
You have the hope and strength to find new love
Because at that sunset you find peace
There, is where your fears all cease
For dreams you find your strength to fly
There, in that sunset sky.
Today's Carsounds- The Doors - Light My Fire
… the California Poppy, such a beautiful and irresistible sight in person! The textured background here includes a mesh fence surrounding the flowers at the Shipley Nature Center in Huntington Beach.
Spring has arrived in California, seemingly a little early. Buds are bursting everywhere. The colors are back!!
(Small trim).. I saw this over hanging a garden wall.. so parked my car beside it.. and took this shot out of the window.. it's a lovely ''California lilac'.. 'Ceanothus' .....' .. View On Black
HBM..!! Thanks for looking.. have a great day.. and week ahead..
The little town of Trinidad on the northern California coast is a great place
to stop for lunch and breathe deeply.
We enjoyed the sweeping ocean view, after a beautiful drive through the redwoods
on our way home to BC.
Well not really lost, but taking some fun back roads in northern California can lead to some pretty sights in the morning.
Sometimes I feel so lucky to live in such a wonderful place. Today was one of those days.
Allen's Hummingbird
Selasphorus sasin
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
© 2014 Patricia Ware -All Rights Reserved
Massive tree roots of a Moreton Bay fig tree in Palm Canyon at Balboa Park, San Diego, California.
Moreton Bay Fig ~ This remarkable large tree was planted in preparation for the 1915 exposition from a five-gallon container. Since it was a few years old at the time, its age is computed from about 1910.
This tree is listed in the California Registry of Big Trees as one of the champion trees of the state. The tree measured in 1996 about 78 feet (24 meters) high, with a crown width of 123 feet (37 m) and a trunk girth of 486 inches (12.3 m). It shares the title for this species with the famous Moreton Bay Fig tree of Santa Barbara, California, which has a broader canopy but is not as high.
Many people who grew up in San Diego remember climbing around the roots of this tree as children, while their families enjoyed picnics in the cool shade. Unfortunately, heavy foot traffic caused soil compaction and damage to the delicate surface-feeding roots of the tree, preventing it from obtaining nutrients and water, and the tree began to decline. It was trimmed and fenced off in 1989, mulch was allowed to accumulate, and the tree has recovered and once again shows thick, glossy foliage. As it has recovered it has begun to show the aerial roots that are characteristic of fig trees. In the wild, these roots would have been growing since the early youth of the tree, and would have reached the ground and developed into stout, woody props to help support the heavy branches.
The small dry fruits of the Moreton Bay Fig, are actually composed of hundreds of tiny flowers completely enclosed within the inverted fleshy tissue of the receptacle upon which they rest. A tiny hole (called an ostiole) in the tip of the fruit allows minute symbiotic wasps, which pollinate and lay their eggs within the flowers, to enter and leave the structure.
Ficus macrophylla is a native of east Australia. When it is grown in an open area where it can spread, the Moreton Bay Fig may become as much as 150 feet wide; but crowded in its natural forest habitat, or near buildings in an urban setting, it tends to grow tall and narrow. Several other specimens of this species, as well as 32 other kinds of fig trees, are planted in Balboa Park.
huell howser's favorite peak....
"c'mere louie...getta shot of this!"....
only on pbs....
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbFo6u7l23k
Somethings in the Air Tonight
The Skys Alive With A Burning Light
You Can Mark My Words Somethings About To Break
To a Kid From Oregon By Way Of California
All Of This Is More Than I,ve Ever Known Or Seen
WeePinkieHeart From the Heart Of Scotland To The Edge of California
Absolute Everness / Flickr Group
Jiffy
Step back in time ... visit Bodie. :-)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodie,_California
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Thank You.
Common name: California Sea Lion
Scientific name: Zalophus californianus
Distribution: Mexico, United States
Conservation status (IUCN): Least Concern
The contrast present on a bright day at Mono Lake is a bit of a challenge. This image was created from 5 RAW images ranging in exposure from -2 to +2. NIK Software was used to process and assemble the final image from the 5 RAW images.
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People look on from the Pier just as the sun has set into the Pacific Ocean, as seen from Huntington Beach, California.
Well, It's not what I usually associate with rocking out in California, but the variety of color and textures on the beaches at low tide was really quite amazing!
I appreciate my wife allowing me to take endless pictures on our walks along the beaches near Santa Barbara. My son, who accompanied us a few times suggested she take up poetry! What better ways to document the beauty around us than through a poem or a photograph?
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Mount Shasta is a volcano located at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At 14,179 feet, it is the second highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth highest in California. Mount Shasta is not connected to any nearby mountain and dominates the northern California landscape. On a clear winter day snowy Mount Shasta can be seen from the floor of the Central Valley 140 miles (230 km) south. The mountain has attracted the attention of poets, authors, presidents ... and MelRoseJ.
Siamo in partenza per il fine settimana. Un saluto a tutti, a presto!
We are leaving for the week-end. See you soon. Ciao!
Texture by Lenabem-Anna
Bodie, California is a ghost town east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. As Bodie Historic District, the U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes it as a National Historic Landmark. The ghost town has been administered by California State Parks since becoming a state historic park in 1962..
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Sorry for the influx of uploads folks...
This has been sitting in my archives for the longest time since I can't decide if I like it or not... Blend of 2 exposures for the sky and the sea stack at the background. This feels like there's too much sand in the fg, though I tried to break it up by those water trails. Would've loved the splash to be a little more isolated as opposed to being overwhelmed by the big sea stack at the back.
Chose to shoot this at a pretty fast shutter to get that splash, and in retrospect, should have blended another exposure for smoother foreground water. Oh well... Hindsight's always 20/20.
Pfeiffer Beach, CA. My very first trip to the California Coast...
It was so surprising to me: it was the first time ever I travelled to California - and felt like coming home! I grew up in Southamerica (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) - in California, at least in the part I went to (Palo Alto and Monterey Bay) I found so many similarities. Not to mention all the spanish street and city names, also the architecture and the land- and seascape. The coastline in Chile (for example in Zapallar, north of Santiago de Chile) is just like the one in Carmel by the Sea... even the architecture is similar.
California cruisin' (bit.ly/CarMV) down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills during the 'On The Highway' music video shoot.
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These pictures are from our June 2017 trip to Mammoth Lakes and surrounding lakes in the Eastern Sierra Mountains, California, June 2017. More from this album will be posted in the next few days here.