Rita Crane Photography / road / sunset / trees / reflection / The Road Home, Mendocino
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Here's the description I wrote when I first posted this:
When I left work yesterday, I caught a tiny glimpse of this beautiful light in the distance and my heart stopped because at first I thought a house was on fire, as it was sooooooo bright. I quickly turned my car around thinking to call the fire department, but then I saw it was actually the sun setting through the trees, found a place to park, and grabbed my camera! Not having time to set up a tripod I did my best to capture the scene in the very few minutes I had before everything changed.
Here is some architecture -- so wonderful -- designed and created by the Great Spirit Mystery that has made our beautiful world. I cherish the beauty and mystery of Nature with all my heart and have dedicated my life to helping preserve it.
Here in Northern California along the Pacific, just 4 hours north by car from San Francisco we have a very dedicated and strong group of environmentalists who have done everything we can to bring attention to the importance of preserving life in this area for future generations. Mendocino is the part of the world where the big redwood forests grow.
We live in such a very very beautiful mysterious world! The hand of the architect who made our world - whatever it is - whatever this creative energy is -- must have so much love to make such a wonderful place....if we only have eyes to see....how wondrous.
To help protect life on Earth, we all need to focus and work together to retool our economies and develop new ways to fuel our everyday life activities with energy that is sustainable for the planet. Here are several excellent and helpful resources on line: www.renewableenergyaccess.com www.greenbiz.com and www.apolloalliance.org
note: In this photo, you see some eucalyptus trees along the road. A friend who studies California flora has told me that "the eucalyptus trees were imported to California around 1900 as a substitute for the depleted Redwoods and to provide shade for roadways and to create boundaries for farms and ranches. They were also meant as a money making development scheme for Sunset Magazine (owned by Southern Pacific Railroad) to get people to buy land in the northern Sacramento Valley and make a decent living by growing Eucalyptus. Of course after people bought the land and planted the trees, they couldn't do anything with the wood. But there are still lots of nice Eucalyptus groves dotting mostly the western side of the Sacramento Valley as well as up and down the California coast." Despite not having much economic value in the long run they are marvellous trees that give us shade, beautiful leaves, fantastic fragrance and another plus: they have medicinal properties. Their leaves are antiseptic.
Rita Crane Photography / road / sunset / trees / reflection / The Road Home, Mendocino
Licensing available through Getty Images: www.gettyimages.com/license/142330424
Here's the description I wrote when I first posted this:
When I left work yesterday, I caught a tiny glimpse of this beautiful light in the distance and my heart stopped because at first I thought a house was on fire, as it was sooooooo bright. I quickly turned my car around thinking to call the fire department, but then I saw it was actually the sun setting through the trees, found a place to park, and grabbed my camera! Not having time to set up a tripod I did my best to capture the scene in the very few minutes I had before everything changed.
Here is some architecture -- so wonderful -- designed and created by the Great Spirit Mystery that has made our beautiful world. I cherish the beauty and mystery of Nature with all my heart and have dedicated my life to helping preserve it.
Here in Northern California along the Pacific, just 4 hours north by car from San Francisco we have a very dedicated and strong group of environmentalists who have done everything we can to bring attention to the importance of preserving life in this area for future generations. Mendocino is the part of the world where the big redwood forests grow.
We live in such a very very beautiful mysterious world! The hand of the architect who made our world - whatever it is - whatever this creative energy is -- must have so much love to make such a wonderful place....if we only have eyes to see....how wondrous.
To help protect life on Earth, we all need to focus and work together to retool our economies and develop new ways to fuel our everyday life activities with energy that is sustainable for the planet. Here are several excellent and helpful resources on line: www.renewableenergyaccess.com www.greenbiz.com and www.apolloalliance.org
note: In this photo, you see some eucalyptus trees along the road. A friend who studies California flora has told me that "the eucalyptus trees were imported to California around 1900 as a substitute for the depleted Redwoods and to provide shade for roadways and to create boundaries for farms and ranches. They were also meant as a money making development scheme for Sunset Magazine (owned by Southern Pacific Railroad) to get people to buy land in the northern Sacramento Valley and make a decent living by growing Eucalyptus. Of course after people bought the land and planted the trees, they couldn't do anything with the wood. But there are still lots of nice Eucalyptus groves dotting mostly the western side of the Sacramento Valley as well as up and down the California coast." Despite not having much economic value in the long run they are marvellous trees that give us shade, beautiful leaves, fantastic fragrance and another plus: they have medicinal properties. Their leaves are antiseptic.