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Pescadero Point
Seventeen Mile Drive
Carmel, California
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~On Blue Bayou~
Looks to me like a dead Monterey Cypress Tree.
Now sing it if ya know it...
I'm going back someday
Come what may
To Blue Bayou
Where the folks are fine
And the world is mine
On Blue Bayou
Where those fishing boats
With their sails afloat
If I could only see
That familiar sunrise
Through sleepy eyes
How happy I'd be
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~The Lonely Tree~
The Lone Tree is a famous Monterey Cypress Tree on the famous 17 mile scenic drive.
Wiki
The Lone Cypress is a Monterey cypress tree in Pebble Beach, California. Standing on a granite hillside off the 17-Mile Drive, the tree is a Western icon, and has been called one of the most photographed trees in North America. It is located between Cypress Point Golf Course and the Pebble Beach Golf Links, two of world's best-known golf courses. Possibly as old as 250 years, the cypress has been scarred by fire and has been held in place with cables for 65 years.
The Monterey cypress grows naturally only in Pebble Beach and Point Lobos.[1]
A drawing of the tree was registered as Pebble Beach Company's trademark in 1919. The company said the trademark protected not only the logo but also the tree itself.
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A dead Monterey Cypress stretches its limbs to the ocean. These trees which are native to the Monterey coastline typically live to be several hundred years old. Some reports even put them above a thousand. This one wasn't one of the lucky ones.
Monterey County CA
~The Lonely Tree...Part 2~
looks better bigger view, as you can see more details...
Im not sure why they call it the Lone Cypress when its clearly not alone...Anyways here's a close-up. You can also see the bricks they added as long with the cables to support this tree.
The Lone Tree is a famous Monterey Cypress Tree on the famous 17 mile scenic drive.
Wiki
The Lone Cypress is a Monterey cypress tree in Pebble Beach, California. Standing on a granite hillside off the 17-Mile Drive, the tree is a Western icon, and has been called one of the most photographed trees in North America. It is located between Cypress Point Golf Course and the Pebble Beach Golf Links, two of world's best-known golf courses. Possibly as old as 250 years, the cypress has been scarred by fire and has been held in place with cables for 65 years.
The Monterey cypress grows naturally only in Pebble Beach and Point Lobos.[1]
A drawing of the tree was registered as Pebble Beach Company's trademark in 1919. The company said the trademark protected not only the logo but also the tree itself.
#RigsRocks #LoneCypress #Monterey #CentralCoast #SpanishBay #MontereyCypress #CupressusMacrocarpa #HesperocyparisMacrocarpa #PebbleBeach #LifeExpectancy2000yo #SeventeenMileDrive #PacificGrove
The Lone Cypress at Midway Point is one of the most famous trees in California (a state with LOTS of trees)! Location is on the Monterey Peninsula's Seventeen Mile Drive along the Pacific Ocean , between Pacific Grove and Carmel. I took this photo on April 23, 2010 during a vacation in California with my brother and sister in law.
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Stillwater Cove, is a delightful place along the 17 Mille Drive, and home to the most famous finishing hole in golf at Pebble Beach Golf Course. I'm not a golfer, but I could change my mind in a hurry if I could chase the ball around on this course. Of course that $495 green fee, not including $35 for the cart is kind of showstopper.
Pebble Beach, CA
the lone cypress
Standing on a granite hillside off California's scenic 17-mile drive in Pebble Beach, the Lone Cypress is a western icon, and has been called one of the most photographed trees in North America. The tree is located between Cypress Point Golf Course and the Pebble Beach Golf Links, two of world's most well known golf courses. Possibly as old as 250 years, the cypress has been scarred by fire and held in place with cables for 65 years.[1]
The Monterey Cypress grows naturally only in Pebble Beach and Point Lobos.[1]
The Lone Cypress at Midway Point is one of the most famous trees in California (a state with LOTS of trees)! Location is on the Monterey Peninsula's Seventeen Mile Drive along the Pacific Ocean , between Pacific Grove and Carmel. I took this photo in April, 1969 during a visit with friends on the Monterey Peninsula.
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These are from the Seventeen Mile Drive from near Monterey Bay to Carmel. It is a private drive but includes Pebble Beach, the Delmonte Forest and other points of interest.
Scan of a 1994 photo somewhere about Pebble Beach on California’s “17 Mile Drive.”
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~Time To Eat~
Wikipedia...
The California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi), is a common and easily observed ground squirrel of the western United States and the Baja California Peninsula; it is common in Oregon and California and its range has relatively recently extended into Washington and northwestern Nevada.
The squirrel's upper parts are mottled, the fur containing a mixture of gray, light brown and dusky hairs; the underside is lighter, buff or grayish yellow. The fur around the eyes is whitish, while that around the ears is black. Head and body are about 30 cm (12 in) long and the tail an additional 15 cm (5.9 in). They can weigh from 280-738 g(9.87-26.01 oz).[6] The tail is relatively bushy for a ground squirrel, and at a quick glance the squirrel might be mistaken for a fox squirrel.
As is typical for ground squirrels, California ground squirrels live in burrows which they excavate themselves. Some burrows are occupied communally but each individual squirrel has its own entrance. Although they readily become tame in areas used by humans, and quickly learn to take food left or offered by picnickers, they spend most of their time within 25 m (82 ft) of their burrow, and rarely go further than 50 m (160 ft) from it.
In the colder parts of their range, California ground squirrels hibernate for several months, but in areas where winters have no snow, most squirrels are active year-round. In those parts where the summers are hot they may also festivate for periods of a few days.
California ground squirrels are often regarded as a pest in gardens and parks, since they will eat ornamental plants and trees. They commonly feed on seeds, such as oats, but also eat insects such as crickets and grasshoppers as well as various fruits.
California ground squirrels are frequently preyed on by rattlesnakes. They are also preyed on by eagles, raccoons, foxes, badgers, and weasels. Interdisciplinary research at the University of California, Davis, since the 1970s has shown that the squirrels use a variety of techniques to reduce rattlesnake predation. Some populations of California ground squirrels have varying levels of resistance to rattlesnake venom as adults. Female squirrels with pups also chew on the skins shed by rattlesnakes and then lick themselves and their pups (who are never resistant to venom before one month of age) to disguise their scent. Sand-kicking and other forms of harassment provoke the snake to rattle its tail, which allows a squirrel to assess the size and activity level (dependent on blood temperature) of the snake.
Another strategy is for a squirrel to super-heat and swish around its tail. When hunting, rattlesnakes primarily rely on their pit organ, which detects infrared radiation. The hot-tail-swishing appears to convey the message "I am not a threat, but I am too big and swift-moving for it to be worth trying to hunt me." These two confrontational techniques also distract the snake from any nearby squirrel burrows containing pups.
The swishing of the tail from side to side is called tail-waving. This tail-waving helps the squirrel to deter a snake attack. It was shown that the snakes attacked the squirrels that exhibited the tail-waving at a shorter distance than those that did not and majority of those tail-waving squirrels successfully dodged these attacks. This successful dodging, along with the fact that the adult squirrels are larger than the young ones, helps to deter the predators, as studies have found that the rattlesnakes are 1.6 times more likely to be deterred from attacking an area after an encounter with an adult squirrel. In 30 out of 45 interactions with snakes, the tail-waving behavior of the squirrels stopped the snake in its tracks and the snake attempted to wait for the squirrel to leave before it would consider attacking again, showing that the behavior does deter predatory attacks by the rattlesnakes. This is due to the adult squirrels being vigilant and looking more threatening and also that they are able to more successfully dodge attacks. They also can use their tail-waving to signal to other ground squirrels in the area that a rattlesnake or other predator has recently been spotted. Though the ground squirrels have been found to also exhibit this tail-waving behavior when there is no predator present, they wave their tail faster and for a longer amount of time when they spot a predator or in an area where a predator has recently been spotted.
Vigilant behavior in squirrels is also a defense mechanism to avoid predation. In addition to the tail-waving, the squirrels have been found to be more vigilant and on alert if there had recently been a predator in the area than they were if there had been no predator detected. If the ground squirrels are aware that they are in an area where the rattlesnakes have recently been, the ground squirrels devote more time to being alert and searching for the predators than to hunting and foraging than in an environment where they do not believe there are predators.[9] These vigilant squirrels were found to have a faster reaction time to a stimuli from a predator and jump higher and further away than a squirrel who was not as vigilant. In a simulated environment study, 60% of squirrels that were in an environment with a recent snake encounter exhibited an evasive leap behavior, which propels them father away from their attackers. 20% of squirrels exhibited this behavior in a primary encounter with a snake and roughly 5% of squirrels exhibited this behavior when there was no snake present and no threat detected. This shows that the squirrels are more alert, vigilant, and ready for an attacker after one has been recently seen.
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Spongebob, Patrick and Squidward at Spanish Bay on the Seventeen Mile Drive at Pebble Beach.
Photo from our trip in 2015.
A photo of my father, on the Seventeen Mile Drive near Monterey, California. He was visiting me while I was in the U.S. Army Language School. I do not have many photos of him in casual clothes.
easily the most iconic image of the pebble beach area and the 17-mile drive. its also the official symbol of pebble beach and so its actually trademarked.
I love the grainy, weather-beaten feel of this one. Matches the day -- cold, wet, windy, and grey; a harsh spring morning.
This place reminds me of where my great grandparents grew up in the lowlands of the Atlantic sounds. Truth is, this couldn't be any further from it in so many ways -- this house sits on Carmel's famous 17 Mile Drive and you could probably buy a good portion of their town for what this house would cost.
This rock outcropping is along the Pacific Ocean shoreline on California's Monterey Peninsula. The location is on Seventeen Mile Drive at Windy Point between Carmel and Pacific Grove.
I cropped the image slightly to bring the bird a bit closer in the view.
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Most photographers take the 'Lone Cypress' photo by isolating the tree at the right side. I did this too, but for this particular photo, I included the other cypresses, as well.
For those of you who feel sorry for the Lone Cypress, it's not alone at all! Yet, it normally get all the attention. Now you should feel sorry for the other trees!
This is a photo of the isolated 'Lone Cypress':