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Much of Michigan was clear cut in the 1800-1900's so, much of the forest now is new growth. This is the largest known white pine in the Tahquamenon Falls State Park, about 175 years old. It's 120' high, 4'8" in diameter, and 14'8" in circumference.
26 Things III item "Grand".
We went back to Paradise to see if we could get the satellite to work again. This is Randy, an all purpose handyman, cutting limbs off the trees that block the line-of-sight. It didn't seem to help.
26 Things III item "Out of Reach".
Alicia caught me taking a photo of her purse. "I need a photo of a button. It's for a challenge," I explained.
26 Things III item "Button".
I think these tracks stretch all the way to Oregon....
26 Things III item "Stretch".
26 Things III (26), California Summer 2004 (45), Family (48)
Taken from the front yard of a gorgeously landscaped winery, this is looking out on the hills across the road. In Sonoma County the vineyards have spread everywhere, creating an artificial landscape of monoculture. They do add greenery to an otherwise summer brown hillside, but knowing the danger of monoculture, and the chemicals used for these crops, it's hard for me to see their beauty.
26 Things III item "Artificial".
26 Things III item "Exotic".
26 Things III (26), California Summer 2004 (45), Flowers (41)
Tree spirit of the oak?
26 Things III item "Through".
26 Things III (26), California Summer 2004 (45), Family (48)
Years ago, while I lived with my parents, I brought home a pair of ducks a friend had given me because they were outgrowing their little apartment. Ducks are much more suited for farm living. Their eggs were delicious and they ate snails which was a blessing after having the worst post el Nino snail year. My mom and I got them a husband and they became many ducks. The farm my parents moved to didn't yet have a working pond or place safe from predators for the ducks to live. It was a stressful thing trying to figure out what to do with all the farm animals. To her relief, my mom found this lady to adopt the ducks. Her pond is huge and already has ducks, geese, and sheep living around it.
26 Things III item "Relief".
26 Things III item "Bottom".
26 Things III (26), California Summer 2004 (45), Creatures (75)
These power lines go right along the driveway at my parents' new house. Isn't that supposed to be bad for people?
26 Things III item "Lines".
This is Carl, Head Instructor for Sonoma County Wing Tsun and a good friend. We met for coffee a couple times while I visited Cali in June. I can't remember what he's talking about here, at Dempsey's in Petaluma, but I remember how good the falafel sandwich was. The coffee isn't bad but the microbrewed beer is one of my favorites.
26 Things III item "Mug".
I spent a couple weeks helping my parents move from of their country house outside of Petaluma, California to a bigger property north, outside Potter Valley. My dad decided he wanted to take his iron weathervane with him. He sent me up the barn roof with a hammer to take it down. It was neat to see the house and property from this highest perch. I don't think I've been up there since I helped my dad re-roof it when I was a kid.
26 Things III item "Different".
After a day of fotostrolling with fotologger vimanaboy.
26 Things III item "Delicious".
On a beach fotostroll with fotologger vimanaboy. Someone wrote this in the outhouse.
26 Things III item "Dummy".
On a beach fotostroll with fotologger vimanaboy. The Pacific Ocean is so far from here.
26 Things III item "Far Away".
On a fotostroll with fotologger vimanaboy. At the beach.
26 Things III item "Underground".
26 Things III (26), California Summer 2004 (45), Flowers (41)
On a fotostroll with vimanaboy. This is a backdoor on Water Street, Petaluma. The book on the ground says, "Bottles".... Ironic?
26 Things III item "Green".
On a fotostroll with fotologger vimanaboy, we stopped to see his sister's metal shop. She's showing us her silver press.
26 Things III item "Mechanical".
Sound check at The Great American Music Hall, a popular venue for great bands. 26 Things III item "Popular".
26 Things III (26), California Summer 2004 (45), San Francisco (29)
Matthew 6:19 — Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.
I just found that quote, fittingly for this photo. It's good advice for me, and something I've worked hard to overcome in the past years, but since I don't have a home... here, in the storage unit in Santa Rosa, is where I keep my stuff. A unit, two down from mine, was broken into recently by the person between our units. Mine is probably safe from that person, but it would be easy to break in from the other side. Erica helped me move a few more things there that had been left at the last minute at my parent's house. In the past couple years, I've gotten rid of much more than I have acquired, and that is a great thing. But... I really like moths and rust....
I miss having my things nearby. Me and my things have been apart for over 10 months now. That's why I choose this photo for the 26 Things III item "Missing".
26 Things III (26), California Summer 2004 (45), Family (48)
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Armed with Afghan hash?
On a beach fotostroll with fotologger 
Flaming Absente. 
Arianna Helen