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How amazing is the scenery along the coast, from your home to the golf course job ?

Check out the sky this morning :

Not what it was 25 years ago and prior.
It used to be like driving through a forest at 60 mph. Over the years, they logged up to within a couple hundred feet of the highway. Now you could see daylight to your right and left. Tourists still felt like they were driving through a forest...... The trickery didn't fool all of em.
The tall trees left standing used to be like an army with all the comrades standing so close the wind and storms had no affect on them.
They were tall and weak, because their companions. Like drunks leaning against each other.
Being old, tall and weak, each time we have heavy winds or storms, there are trees falling onto the highway, closing it for hours. A bunch fell a month ago.
They need to cut them ALL down .........and use the lumber to make a 25 mile continuous billboard on each side of the highway.
They could paint it to look like a forest.

 

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Is it obvious enough to make a dog .....bark at it?

 

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I love plant life pics, where something seems to grow where it shouldn't. I remember as a teen, I saw a poster with a plant growing in the middle of a 4 lane roadway, with a caption similar to "Nothing is Impossible." It really hit me like a ton of bricks.

At a place 150 miles south of me, there's a trail to where a forest lookout used to be and a second trail to the all lake below it.
There's a pine tree growing right out of the rock. Close to the lake. It's a very unusual shape. It goes straight up for a few feet, then sideways for a few feet, then continued upwards for the next 30 to 60 years. I'm guessing at an early age it bent from heavy snow, then grew sideways before deciding to grow up normally from them on.
It's a pretty neat and unusual tree..... Providing it hasn't burnt up in one of the large forest fires we've had over the past 30 years. I haven't been that way for probably 25 years.