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Look at the bottom half and it's a dog standing in a desert that stretches to the horizon under a cloudy sky.

Look at the bottom half and it's a dog standing in a desert that stretches to the horizon under a cloudy sky.

What a wonderful (and I'm assuming originally unintended) picture.

It's a stunning two-way image - that is, when viewed, (the lower half only) is of the doggy standing on the edge of the sandy shore with a background of scrubland and dulled skies - and the full picture showing the doggy in exactly the same position but facing out towards the lake. Superb.

dog by the dock feeding the ducks


hawk eyeballin' him from a low hanging limb


dragon and son out on the lawn


backyard bunny lippin' a leaf


downtown denver steel and glass



windy road thru the wild woods

moon, with extended coronal projection, Dec 24th 2015, from my back garden

SLAD taught me today how to post images and videos.

Here is where I live.



My home is about 1/4 inch below (south) of the n in Orleans perched on a bench above the Klamath River and State highway.

The high mountains to the south and southeast are the Trinity Alps Wilderness (526,000 acres).

The high mountains to the east and northeast are the Marble Mountain Wilderness (242,000 acres).

The high mountains to the north and northwest are the Siskiyou Wilderness (183,000 acres).

This satellite photo is about 80% federal ownership (National Forests, National Parks, Indian Trust lands, BLM) with private land between the coast and national forests, mostly timber industry (redwood) and miscellaneous private around Humboldt Bay (Eureka) and Redding. The 2.5 million acres closest to my home is about 99% federal.

The dark green area due west that abuts the Pacific Ocean is Redwood National Park (133,000 acres). The lighter green adjacent is timber industry land or Yurok Reservation land that has been and is logged whereas the dark green is primeval redwood; much of the logged land --2nd, 3rd, and 4th growth-- looks like grand forest to most until one sees the primeval forest. One is looking at over 50% of the existing never logged redwood in the world that originally ranged over about 2 million acres in California and occurs in a band about 20 miles closest to the coast in this photo. The area includes the Tall Trees Grove and the more recently discovered but specific location not divulged tallest tree in the world.

Name, park, height in meters
Hyperion - Redwood 115.61
Helios - Redwood 114.58
Icarus - Redwood 113.14
Stratosphere Giant - Humboldt 113.05
National Geographic - Redwood 112.71
Orion - Redwood 112.63
Federation Giant Humboldt 112.62
Paradox - - Humboldt 112.51
Mendocino - Montgomery 112.32
Mellenium - Humboldt 111.92


The range of redwood is the summer fog belt. I live in Douglas-fir, outside the summer fog belt, amid the greatest extent of never logged Douglas-fir that remains though part is fragmented by industrial logging of the National Forests between 1955 and 1990 and subsequent wildfires. The satellite photo was a location map for two large wildfires that occurred in 2014.

For scale, the Pacific Ocean is 29 miles due west crow miles from my house.

The highway from Redding to Eureka is 155 road miles.

The highway from my house to Eureka is 95 road miles.

Edit to add: If one looks to the far right and sees where State 89 leaves Interstate 5, the small volcano is Cinder Cone and Mount Shasta (14,000 ft plus) is about 3/4 inch east of Cinder Cone at this scale.

Photo is taken in 2002. National Forest land, 100% Federal. Roads were built and areas were logged between 1955 and 1990 including the first ever USA commercial helicopter logging in 1973.

Camp Creek is my home creek or "neighborhood" and I grew up at the mouth and now live on a bench above the mouth. The center of the photo is maybe 5 crow miles from where I sit (the photo covers roughly 20,000 acres).

The Karuk Tribe does its World Renewal Ceremony or Pichi'avich at Tishannik which is the Karuk name for where Camp Creek enters the Klamath. The ceremony did not occur between 1911 and 1999 and the active site was part of a cultural complex that went to the US Supreme Court under the Native American Religious Freedom Act in the 1980s.

The highest but heavily forested high point at the top slightly right center is Van's Peak. Van was my maternal grandfather but also the last of any of my family to come here. He was a mule packer to here from Humboldt Bay starting in +/- 1905 and moved here to run the mule packing company's general store in 1911. In 1921 the area was reached by road and he opened a hunting and fishing oriented resort that was sold in 1958 and later closed and last remnants of the site burned about 5 years ago.

The next watershed north of Camp Creek is Bluff Creek which is notorious for being the location of the Patterson big foot video. Cedar Camp Road basically followed the ridgeline following the watershed boundary between Camp Creek and Bluff Creek. Just on the left flank of Van's Peak, the Sasquatch Ridge Road forks off Cedar Camp and follows Sasquatch Ridge to cross Bluff Creek just above where Notice Creek joins Bluff Creek. The video was filmed less than a mile up Bluff Creek from the road crossing the stream.

This photo was taken in 2002 during late Summer so the water is low but not as low as in 2015.

The area of my home can't be seen this photo but is located at the northwest corner of the small valley / top right corner of photo and blocked from view by a ridge, trees, and photo angle.

damn puf you live in a cool place. looks like a dream

^^Amen to that. Mountains, trees and water. The holy trinity as far as I'm concerned. Couldn't live without them.