A section of San Ysidro Trail under the oaks in the Montecito Foothills, Santa Barbara County, California.
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“He may be just a tramp, a guy that likes to roam about this great country without any special aim, just to thank the Lord for these beautiful mountains.”
-B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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“. . .here, where there are still the silences and the loneliness of the earth before man, . . .”
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Very nice picture.
Makes me yearn to walk the trail
Now THAT is a delicious photo! It invites the viewer to step inside the vista and magically walk right down that road into another world! There is nothing I would change about that photo – it’s incredible! Z