3/28/11

Founders Grove

I made Founders Grove my first stop Monday morning. This is one of the most-visited places in Humboldt Redwoods SP, which is itself one of California's most visited parks, but during my visit I had the whole place to myself.

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The light was going in and out behind clouds. I got pictures in the light, but a forest like this is otherwise too dark for my camera without using a flash. So I took several pictures of light coming through the trees.

One week ago at this very moment I was in Founders Grove looking at this.

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Fallen redwood trees decompose slowly over hundreds of years and become gardens in themselves. I saw some some amazing examples Tuesday in Lost Man Creek. I hope some of those pictures came out. I haven't looked at them yet.

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My rental car a little ways down the road to give you some sense of scale. And some sense of the roads I was driving on.

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5 comments:

xoxoxo said...

Absolutely stunning!

Christopher C. NC said...

I love it when the shafts of light beam through the fog and the forest and that is one majorly amazing forest.

rainymountain said...

Fantastic! So green and lush.

Laguna Dirt said...

transforming!

Kaveh Maguire said...

There is nothing like being in a redwood grove. So other worldly.