Northern California, Yolo County

[gulfcoastliberal]

Experiencing technical difficulties with yahoo photos.

Switching to photobucket, pics resized though.

All pics taken with a Canon Powershot A95 during roundtrip bikeride from Davis to Solano Dam.

Plow implement, UC Davis


Olive Trees, UC Davis campus


Vineyard, UC Davis


TS Glide Ranch, Russel Blvd


Rural Road


Sunflowers


Putah Creek, B&W


Putah Creek, color


Coastal Range, Solano County. Over those hills are Calistoga and the Napa/Sonoma wine valleys

[F.Gordon]

1. Great photos

:applause:

Partial to the B&W and really like "Rural Road". All nice.

Looks like you had a nice bike trip. I still like walkin'. Can't cover as much ground so I "look" harder for stuff to point the camera at. Plus.... if I'm going solo with a prime lens I have to "zoom" myself to frame :eyes" my snapshots.

Thanks for sharin'!!! Hope to see more.

[gulfcoastliberal]

3. Thank you!

I took all those the day I bought the camera. Next I'll take some pictures of the Gulf Coast area - not nearly as interesting as good ol Cali, though. Appreciate your encouragement!

[TahitiNut]

2. Strange - I like 'Rural Road' too.

It captures two ephemerals about California and the Central Valley - (1) the golden-brown 'dust' tone of a hot summer day on the backroads, and (2) the somewhat washed-out look of noonday sunlight bathing everything evenly. I'm not typically favorable to monotones of lesser quality than Ansel Adams but, for some reason, this one struck me as conveying the 'feel' of the scene.

[gulfcoastliberal]

4. Thanks, Tahitinut!

I took this one in both color, B&W, and Sepia modes. I tought Sepia looked best, and the"Road Narrows" kind of shows that even in California right around the overbuilt Sac area, there are still beautiful fields being farmed every year.

Color:


B&W


Now how about some pics of Tahiti, or have I just not looked for them?

[hvn_nbr_2]

5. Well, now, this is odd. I don't see any of the pictures

I tried both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Both just show the little icons that they use when a graphic file isn't found, for all of the pics.

[gulfcoastliberal]

7. I accidently erased the album on photobucket, here's a repost

[hvn_nbr_2]

8. Now I see them.

In the repost message that I'm replying to, not in the original post. I guess you put them back in a different directory or gave them different names than the original.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. I'm seeing them both places,

and I like them a lot, especially the rural roads. I spent five or six years in northern California in my younger days so these look real familiar. Is Yolo County near Marysville?

[gulfcoastliberal]

10. About 30 miles away. Yolo plays host to I-80 and I-5

But is mostly ag land outside of Davis and Woodland. That's changing quickly though, as more and more housing developments sprout up from the ground instead of melons, tomatos, sunflowers, safflowers, etc.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. I lived up there in Forbestown for a year back in 1974.

It was all pretty rural back in those days.

[CC]

12. I can see this set and they are

beautiful.

[gulfcoastliberal]

13. Thank you CC!

:blush:

[CC]

6. Not seeing them either

and sounds like we are missing some good pics.

[GOPFighter]

14. So that's what Yolo County looks like...

A distant cousin got tired of Indiana and moved to Yolo County, CA, around 1880. West Cottonwood Township to be exact. I only remember because his son got sucked into some kind of mining venture in Mexico. He went down there in 1903 and was never heard from again.

Based on your pictures, Yolo County still looks pretty rural. I wonder what it was like in 1880?