The landscapes are beautiful, and your colors too, but they all look
oversharpened on my end.
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 29 Feb 2016, at 02:15, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2/17/2016 10:49 PM, ChrisB wrote:
>> That is my sort of countryside, Moose.
>
> I've put together a little gallery that should give a better sense of the
> area as a whole.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Marin%2C_Sonoma%2C_Mendocino_Coast/Marinoma>
>
>> Indeed, it could be some parts of England.
>
> Weelll ... All those hills will be (golden) brown by summer. How soon depends
> on the amount and timing of late season rain. I happen to think they are
> still beautiful; the shapes knock me out, but not everyone will have the same
> taste. Carol, who grew up and lived in the NE tells of coming to California
> in the summer and wondering what terrible ecological disaster we had wrought
> on ourselves. Then winter came, and everything turned thousands of shades of
> luscious green. :-) I recall the opposite when I was flying into Dallas in
> the winter. As we banked over suburbs, the woman next to me, (from Calif.,
> obviously) asked why everything was sand. I was able to tell her that that's
> the way grass looks in the winter there. (Darn near froze my tush off there
> on that trip.)
>
> On 2/20/2016 7:15 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Perhaps "pastureland" explains it but I've always wondered if this land was
>> cleared of trees for pasture or if the trees only tend to grow in the narrow
>> valleys because they're wetter.
>
> You're mostly right. This gallery should give a somewhat more complete
> picture of this immediate area. But it's only a very few miles to wild coast
> and redwood forests. Near the coast, it's generally wetter in the winter and
> the marine layer protects it from drying out so much in the summer. Between
> that and the considerable variation in topography along the coast, there are
> valleys like most of these that are natural pastureland and tree cover
> ranging creek beds, sinks, etc. where there is water at least much later in
> the season to heavy forests and huge trees like Redwoods and Douglas Firs not
> far away.
>
> I imagine that this land looks overall much as it did when white men came,
> but the local Indians managed the land pretty extensively, for example,
> burning it annually. Details would be different, with some trees undoubtedly
> gone and others, windbreaks and shade trees, that weren't there before.
>
> There would have been no cattle, more and deer and lots more elk. There were
> huge populations of Tule Elk in these coastal valleys and the Central Valley.
> There are herds of them on the N. end of Point Reyes NP. It's sort of
> segregated, dairy cattle to the S. and elk to the N. The elk are doing rather
> well, and spreading, so that there is controversy about them in the dairy
> areas in my images. The NP herds are being used to reestablish them in parts
> of their old range in the C. Valley. Further up the coast, there is another
> species, Roosevelt Elk, that like higher, more rugged country.
>
> California Dreaming Moose
>
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