Posted on 11/08/2017 10:56:52 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Thanks. I point out to be that the flat land in the third picture was a brussels sprout ranch in a hidden valley.
WOW! Thanks for sharing. Beautiful scenery. I am jealous (spent yesterday in my too-hot cubicle pondering less-than-cheerful subjects.
Please share future exhibitions!
LOL...I sympathize. I quit being a cube-dweller in June this year. Retirement is great!
I added you to the list.
CA is the crown jewel of America. Too bad so many ran and fled and instead of standing their ground. They gave up the best to settle for less. It makes the fight against the evil left even more difficult.
Exactly right. Unfortunately all the coastal states are like that and pushing toward the middle.
California beauty and weather is what keeps most conservatives in California - that’s why I’m still here.
I understand the leftist on the coasts and pushing towards the middle. But the fact is they can run from it but it will be there waiting for them. What I don’t quite understand was all those who just gave up and fled anyway. I figure if they’ll run once, they’ll run again.
Nice pics btw.
Great photos.
My motto: *Get out and STAY out!*
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Great pictures. Thanks. Couldn’t have asked for a better day.
“California beauty and weather is what keeps most conservatives in California - that’s why I’m still here.”
Same here.
I was born here, and I’ll not give it up without a fight.
There are millions of us. Literally.
Where is the link to the pics?
Wow!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thanx. Beautiful. I finished 326 miles on AT this year.... 1540 miles to go.
The reason high-tech has always been a key driver starts not just with the Gold rush, but shortly afterward. Consider that the "moon shot" of its day was putting the trans-continental railroad through across the Sierra. Common knowledge focuses on the struggle of manual laborers, such as the Irish & Chinese, but little thought it given to the scientists & engineers. Well, how did Cal, Stanford and CalTech get seeded with talent?
Once the railway was completed (and a decade later a spur to SoCal), the state's agriculture industry took off, benefiting from huge surpluses created by perfect growing conditions ie the weather. With ready transport, the state was able to supply the rest of the country with fresh produce, a role it continues today. The citrus industry in SoCal was especially valuable (and vulnerable), which prompted Beckman to invent certain measuring devices. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Orville_Beckman) Beckman financed Fairchild up in Santa Clara - it could have just as easily been Pasadena by CalTech - which of course launched the Silicon valley.
A second prong was aerospace. Again, because of the perfect weather, flyers, researchers, scientists and engineers could fly year round. Being able to conduct business 365/24/7 provided a huge leg up on the rest of the world. It was such an obvious location, that a brilliant engineer named Donald Douglas was recruited from MIT to come out west. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Wills_Douglas_Sr.) The rest is history, including manufacture of the Mustang (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004680759/) and the F-18 fuselage using the same facilities by LAX.
Last, but not least, is of course Hollywood. Again, perfect weather allows for filming/TV production 365/24/7.
I should mention real estate, because some people do still move here because of the weather, but it's primarily the weather/geography that created the economic conditions in the first place to drive real estate values that is the key salient point.
People who disparage and/or criticize Calif for its political leanings (yes, it was momentarily conservative for around 20 years after WWII), don't realize it's always had an undercurrent - and now dominant - socialist streak. If you know the score, you know it's just the cost of doing business. That is, you cannot remove one from the other.
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As to your photos, I like the last one of Mavericks. Looks kind of flat, however. LOL. And yeah, fall is by far and away the best season. I used to say, no one moved here because of the summers. While summer is nice, it's the unbelievable perfection during fall/winter that is the thing that strikes most visitors.
Thanks!
Great words to live by! (and not just the kitchen)
Wow! That’s awesome. Going to do it in segments over several years?
My doctor has taken his daughters on the John Muir segments of the PCT. Every year they do about 100 miles. Really cool he does that every year with his girls. I think they were doing Mt. Whitney this year.
You should see the pics on the thread immediately below the text.
You might see a link “Go to article” that sometimes shows up. If it is showing, then the pics won’t be showing, but if you click that link, the pics should show. A couple of others have had similar problems. Let me know if you can get then to show.
Glad you liked them, Megan.
Excellent summary of the economic situation and history in CA, semantic! You are spot-on that the weather is what launched so many early industries here.
OT, but the thing about the Gold Rush and the Transcontinental Railroad that people often don’t understand is the incredible capital-intensity and technology-intensity of those industries. They were financed by the federal government, by NYC, and by London. Huge amounts of capital flowed into the state for those industries as did huge amounts of very heavy machinery manufactured in the eastern US and Europe. Just think of the thousands of tons of rails and rolling stock needed to build the railroad. Ditto for hard rock mining through granite. The completion of the transcontinental RR, ice cars and soon refrigerated cars, and then ag took off when CA could feed so much of the US and the world.
Like so many industries, ancillary industries started up as necessary inputs to the main industry. For several decades, Santa Clara County was the biggest mercury mining operation in the world — all to feed the gold separation processes in the Sierras.
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