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![Annotated version showing three neighboring planets and a couple notable stars. The Core of our galaxy is the more detailed area of the Milky Way low on the horizon. [Note: This map can lead the aliens directly to us, so be responsible.]](https://mindscapefx.com/wp-content/gallery/inland-from-the-north-coast/C-2019-03-17_Kneeland-MilkyWay-morning_20-21_Annotated-1500px.jpg "Annotated version showing three neighboring planets and a couple notable stars. The Core of our galaxy is the more detailed area of the Milky Way low on the horizon. [Note: This map can lead the aliens directly to us, so be responsible.]")
David’s Favorite Stories
Milky Way over South Fork Eel River
Humboldt County, California The word “photography” literally means “light painting,” and there is something about taking that idea and actually adding my own strokes of light that appeals to me. Nighttime gives me the opportunity to make images ...
Musings at the Moonstone Cave
Humboldt County, California We stood in the mouth of the cavern, looking out through a great broken crack in the blackness into the night as if through a window into another world. It fired our imaginations, conjuring mysteries in the night. ...
Avenue of the Giants Guardians
Humboldt County, California The full moon rose over the redwood forests of the Eel River valley, bathing the hillsides in its stark light. It flashed through the redwood tree branches beside me as I drove along the Avenue of the Giants, snaking ...
The Survivor
Ancient Pear Tree in Humboldt County An old, stunted pear tree abides in its nightly vigil beneath the Milky Way. The tree lives in Southern Humboldt County, California, but the far ridge line is in Mendocino County. The gnarled old pear tree ...
Close Encounters on the Avenue
Humboldt County, California The Avenue of the Giants is as beautiful a drive as you will find. The groves along its 36-mile course line the Avenue with some of the grandest examples of the tallest trees on Earth, the California coast ...
A Bit of Whimsy
Humboldt County, California It’s not for everyone to take the world seriously all of the time, though some people probably need to, at least a little bit. But I don’t think I’m one of them. I surmise folks like that need people like me to keep ...
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