Pastures of Heaven Summer 2003 |
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| A park-like area with natural loop trails throughout. | ||
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| Landscape accented with majestic Valley Oaks. | ||
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| Outcrops of California Serpentine. | ||
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| Dramatic cloudscapes enhance the scenery. | ||
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| Like brush strokes of a master artist. | ||
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| Intrigued
by a series of distant rock formations, I hiked into the area to take photos. |
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Here
the earth surface buckled and thrust broken slabs of rock upward.
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| Ever-changing cloud patterns drift overhead. | ||
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| Fire
once swept over this ridge leaving skeleton trees in its wake. |
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| Reservoir below rock formations south of Llagas Ave. | ||
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| Dead
oak in foreground is distinctive feature of this high meadow. |
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| Future
industrial park: corner of Bailey Avenue and Santa Teresa Blvd. But for now, hayfields are safe. |
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| Farmland
reservoirs provides habitat for birds and other wildlife. Now a college extension campus borders it. |
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| Hay cut and left to dry creates an intricate pattern. | ||
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| Reservoir drains via the wavering creek bed on right. | ||
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| Development currently held in check to preserve farmland. | ||
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| Once
farmland, then a golf course, now farmland once again. What the future holds for Coyote Valley remains uncertain. |
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