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"To Look Out to the Beach, and Call it Home", I call this one. So often we make the ocean the subject of our photos, heedless of the also pleasant expanse to the back of us. I often wonder what it would be like to live in such a place, where the lush things grow, and the air pairs so well with a glass of wine and a roaring fire in the hearth...must be nice...

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The "Vines of Heaven"...okay, okay, it's really Sonoma. But when you're seeing humidity, scorching sun, and even a whiff of smoke in the southern part of the state, you wonder what you were even thinking by leaving wine country at all...maybe I shouldn't have.

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It hits harder, doesn't it? To know that now are the last days before the nights get truly long, dark, and cold...at least in parts of the world where shops like this just feel like part of the landscape. Taken in Seattle one summer's night, "Last Call at Starbucks".

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A scene that inspires a romantic sense of nostalgia; like a sunset a Bette Davis character would be gazing at in a rocking chair, in a vaguely colonial upper-class home, no doubt in some riveting melodrama. One can dream...

Taken atop Pacific Palisades, "Farewell, Day that Was".

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