Into the Woods

This is one of my favorites from my Northern CA series.  This shot was taken at the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens along one of the perimeter trails. 

Arbor Trail

River Song

Swift and silent and strong
        Under the low-browed arches,
    Through culverts, and under bridges,
    Sweeping with long forced marches
    Down to the ultimate ridges,--
        The sand, and the reeds, and the midges,
    And the down-dropping tassels of larches,
        That border the ocean of song.

Kate Seymour Maclean  

More from Northern California

Mount Shasta from Crag View Drive

Middle Fork Kaweah River

Northern California - Mountains, Forest and Water

Uprooted

Boulder Creek Falls

Boulder Creek Falls II

On The Trail to Moro Rock

Mountain Stream

River Pool

Autumn Falls

Autumn Lake

Waterfall Dreams

On Top Of Moro Rock

Autumn's Gold

    

    Along the tops of all the yellow trees,
        The golden-yellow trees, the sunshine lies;
        And where the leaves are gone, long rays surprise
    Lone depths of thicket with their brightnesses;
    And through the woods, all waste of many a breeze,
        Cometh more joy of light for Poet's eyes--
        Green fields lying yellow underneath the skies,
    And shining houses and blue distances.

    By the roadside, like rocks of golden ore
        That make the western river-beds so bright,
        The briar and the furze are all alight!
    Perhaps the year will be so fair no more,
        But now the fallen, falling leaves are gay,
        And autumn old has shone into a Day!

~ George MacDonald

Rancho California RV Resort

Spent the weekend in our new RV at the Rancho California RV Resort just east of Temecula.  Here are a few morning shots of one of the lakes at the campground.

Floral Arrangement

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