The Painted Hills. Today.
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Petrified log. Collected on a ranch near the town of John Day. Donated to NPS for the opening of the Visitor Center at the Sheep Rock Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
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It’s Throwback Thursday here at the nature pics thread! These are scanned from slides my dad took when we lived in Fairbanks, Alaska. Not sure of the exact date but would be between 1975-1979.
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The Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park was especially lovely when we visited last week. And somehow I managed to get this shot without any of the countless other tourists in it.
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North, Central, or South?
(CA Girl knows these rocks, but OLD CA Girl can’t remember where.)
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the south part of NorCal-- this is Bean Hollow on the San Mateo County coast.
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LOL I’m in the North Part of SoCal (I refuse to chop my state into 3 parts, but I include “Central” for those who do.), home of the much photographed Morro Rock.
Used to live in the Middle of SoCal, home of the much photographed Huntington Beach Pier.
I am going to need to dig through my photos, to find the glorious shots that I took, of the local waters.
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Nice! We can get into an arms race of beach pics 
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Gorgeous shots!
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I think the sunset picture is better than the sunrise. The light for the sunset shot shows the shadows from the variations in the rock of those buttes.
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Cacti - small ones - in our front yard. One prickly pear, four ball cacti (the last one I just noticed for the first time today!).
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