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Woodley Island, part of Eureka’s harbor in Humboldt County, northernmost range of this recent trip

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Look closely and you’ll see a snow-capped Snow Mountain peeking above the tops of the closer range of hills around Clear Lake, here in Lake County’s capital city of Lakeport. I’d only once grazed the very southernmost corner of Lake Country, on a wine-tasting trip to a vineyard that straddled both Lake and its more renowned southern neighbor, Napa.

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Back to Fort Ross State Historic Park in my old home county of Sonoma. This time we visited during the early stages of a school overnight trip, which added to the fun.

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Bernal Hill in the distance, with Garfield Square Park’s soccer field, both as seen from one end of Balmy Alley’s beloved row of murals aka graffiti art, viz my earlier post’s note on the graffiti-to-art continuum :-). The first of several from Balmy Alley. Thanks to Nikos for pulling me here on our last morning in SF.

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We’re at the airport as I set this post up – final views of the GGB taken yesterday (below) and a week ago (above) while visiting. This’ll publish while I’m in the air, early Tuesday Amsterdam time, late Monday SF time. Cheers ’til next we see each other, folks 🙂

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