On 2/12/2016 11:25 PM, ChrisB wrote:
Yes, they are pretty, Moose,
Thanks!
as is the countryside that I can see in those photos.
There's a lot of wonderful, amazing, and so on, countryside in the
world. Some more spectacular. "West Marin" is a place that always
pleases me. I say "West Marin" because the area also includes much of SW
Sonoma Co.
This is one of my favorite views in the world that I've seen.
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The double peaked mountain far away on the left is 4,300' Mount St.
Helena, 38 miles away, at the head of the Napa Valley. There's actually
a lot of urban area we're looking across, but the intervening ridges
hide it all. :-)
The couple of linked valleys close in are split by the county line. One
of my dreams is to have a getaway cottage just up behind where I stood
to take the images. Even a pad with a mobile home would do. ;-) If we
continue to get rain, as we are today, the hills will get even greener,
then turn "golden" in the summer.
The visible ground is mostly pastureland, heavily dairy, with some male
offspring of the dairy herds being grass fed for market. Some sheep, and
the occasional goats, hogs and llamas. There's a small herd of Scottish
Highland cattle, and another of some sort of cattle with really enormous
horns. Not Texas Longhorns, the shape is wrong and these are at least
thicker. The area immediately behind me is more rugged, more ridges,
narrower valleys.
Other spectacular views of the coast and Point Reyes NS are close to the
West.
Dreamin' Moose