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Field of Grass Near Fort Ross
Near Fort Ross is the aforementioned tall grass that induced copious amounts of sneezing. See – i wasn’t joking – that’s some serious California Grass. (not this serious though.)
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Fort Ross
Fort Ross was an interesting place. Russian settlers, Native Alaskans and Californians called this place home, all at the same time. It has been called a relationship “chiefly of cooperation,” and is perhaps one of the few examples of different cultures coming together without immediately killing one another. I was there for about 45 minutes…
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Neil Armstrong Olson
This weekend we ventured to the moon (that’s the earth-rise you see Jason pointing at). He neglected to bring his space-suit so could only stay outside of the ship for about as long as he could hold his breath, and due to the lack of air-pressure he’s ballooned up bigger than Britney Spears. The doctors…
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Santa Cruz Beach
It’s unclear why they have these little life-guard huts out there as there wasn’t a life-guard in sight, and it was a sunny Saturday. The Santa Cruz Boardwalk is a strange place. It’s like a little bit of New Jersey, but on the California coast. And I’m not talking about the funnel-cake. It must be…
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Along the Embarcadero: Palm Trees
Sometimes i set out to photograph the things that i see every day thinking that i can make them look really cool. Instead they turn out looking exactly the way they look every day, which isn’t spectacular but isn’t bad, it just… is. is that bad? good i can’t tell? I’ve been experimenting with these…
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Above Berkeley CA: Tilden State Park 2
Leanne decided to lay down on the trail to take pictures of a California Dandelion. We have some of these California Dandelions near the front of our house and they’re at least 4 times the size of any dandelion i’ve ever seen That road down there is the “trail” that runs through Tilden State Park’s…
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Above Berkeley CA: Tilden State Park
Beautiful Tilden State Park, just about 500 yards from Inspiration Point I don’t know what the deal is with inspiration point. It’s great and all don’t get me wrong, there are rolling meadows as far as the eye can see, and even cows – but there’s not really any room to take it in. You…
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YNP: On top of Yosemite Falls
This is what Yosemite looks like at the top. My little GPS thingy said we were at 6666.something feet +/-26 feet. If you look carefully in the background of this picture you can see evidence that we weren’t the only people to make it to the top. In fact there were a variety of people…
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YNP: Half Dome from the Valley
Here’s Half Dome as seen from a vacant meadow in the valley It’s sort of crazy. Everyone – well nearly everyone – who’s at Yosemite is obsessed with Half Dome, specifically, getting that perfect picture of it. We happened to be driving around right near sunset time taking pictures and found this nice vantage point.…
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YNP: Yosemite Falls
The lower falls here are same ones that were in the previous picture, the upper falls you can see above are greatly affected by the wind. We hiked to the top of this mountain on Saturday. It’s more than 2000 vertical feet acheived over 3.6 miles. You can do the math if you want; what…