What an amazing place this was to be early in the morning - The Ancient Redwood's Northern California - while visiting the Pacific Coast. The ancient Redwoods were here when dinosaurs roamed the earth sixty-five million years ago. The Coastal Redwoods, the mighty Sequoia's, are the tallest living things in our world, some growing to 350 feet and beyond. The tallest living tree known at present is situated on Redwood Creek in the Redwood National Park. It measures in at 367.8 feet, which is higher than a 35-story building.

It's just too bad that these amazing trees are being cut down like crazy for profit. To lumber companies, the Redwoods in North America offer immense logs of clear, straight, beautiful, long-lasting timber for an ever-increasing market. In just a few short decades groves of trees that took centuries to grow were gone. By the turn of the century the number of old growth trees had been severely decimated.

Here's a nice poem by Joseph B. Strauss who was the builder of the Golden Gate. A tribute to the Redwoods of northern California. "The Redwoods." [link]

Thanks for peekin'

UPDATE ~ 4-25-07: I finally changed files on this one as the first just looked too 'hazy' from all the playing around I did in PSP. This one is the original only slightly edited in PS for color and framed in PSP as I still don't know how to add frames in PS.

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<sup>• Camera: Nikon D70
• Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 18-70mm
• Photo by: Me
• Edited by: Me
• Program used: Photoshop CS2 and/or PSP V9

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