Just a comment on the website. The Next link seems to take on to another album
rather than the next photo. A bit confusing, while clicking the picture does go
to the next photo. That may be the intended behavior, I just found it
non-intuitive.
The photos are gorgeous.
WayneS
At 1/7/2020 11:14 PM, Moose wrote:
>On 1/7/2020 6:39 PM, Christopher Crawford wrote:
>>Moose, that must be a really out of the way place!
>
>The western part of Marin County, and adjacent SW part of Sonoma are only
>minutes from SF Bay area urban areas, yet completely rural. Settled largely as
>diary country in the mid 1800s, that's still the main land use.
>
>For some time, zoning was used to keep it rural. When that started to weaken,
>with the prospect of large residential developments, panic led to donations to
>land preservation trusts actively buying up development rights. This gave
>owners some money they needed, while locking out development in deed
>restrictions. Point Reyes National Seashore is protected, of course, but so
>too is a larger area adjacent to it.
>
>It's one of the prettiest rural places I know, and only about 50 minutes from
>home to Nicasio, if one avoids commute hour. Particularly in Spring, when
>there are more colors of green that one would think exist and wonderful
>wildflowers, we wow visitors. It's easy to tour that area, old growth
>Redwoods away from the tourist madness and wild coast in a day, with delicious
>lunch and dinner. :-)
>
>While most of the country was freezing, we took a day trip through the area
>2/16/16.
><http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Marin%2C_Sonoma%2C_Mendocino_Coast/Marinoma>
>
>Not bad in December, either. 12/8/17
><http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Marin%2C_Sonoma%2C_Mendocino_Coast/Camp_Meeker/2017>
>
>And 12/7/12
><http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Marin%2C_Sonoma%2C_Mendocino_Coast/Camp_Meeker/2012&image=_C073199oof20.jpg>
>
>Where's that round TUIT for processing more photos, of the area, esp. some
>wildflowers?
>
>>All the schoolhouses in Indiana were closed by the early 1960s, and most had
>>closed earlier.
>
>As above, this area is and will stay rural and sparsely populated. So there is
>a need for primary schools. As part of the SF Bay area, there's also money,
>likely untrue for rural Indiana, and a desire to maintain nice old things and
>ways. Kids are bused to nearby Novato and Petaluma for conventional urban
>middle and high schools.
>
>>Those in your photo are wooden buildings, which is something I have never
>>seen in northeast Indiana. All of them here are brick, and most were
>>seemingly built from the same plans, with only minor variations.
>
>We have very different weather. And at the time these were built, high quality
>heart redwood was plentiful and cheap. Between weather and the wood, none of
>the usual problems with insects, rot, etc.
>
>Near Paradise Moose
>
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