a yellow airplane makes a wide circle and returns to fly over the field again


the development of California has been presented as an inevitable process, the outcome of which was predetermined at the start. but at every step of the way, choices have been made, choices that created the present state of things.

this manifest destiny framed as inexorable and natural as the sun, traveling from east to west

 

 

much has been sacrificed to make this vision a reality

take the valley oak, rare now after 150 years of clearing for farmland and burning for firewood, which can grow to more than six hundred years old with a diameter of 9 feet. a tree made for the description majestic.


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