Postcards of California landscapes

Place: California - the World's tallest tree, in the Redwood National Park, 112 mt high - the alluvial flats of the Redwood Creek provide the ideal growing conditions for redwood.

Place: California - the Redwood Empire - fog bathes the lofty redwoods easying the drying effect of the summer sun

Place: California - the Gateway to the Muir woods National Monument, a frove of magnificent redwoods named after scientist John Muir, in Mill Valley

Place: California - Wild flowers (verbenas) on the deser in the Californian winter.

Place: California - Stove Pipe Wells Village, Death Valley. A reproduction of the famous painting depicting the original marking of a water hole at the turn of the century. Today on the place there is a California Registered Historic Landmark Sign.

Place: California - Black Butte - a lava cone along U.S. Highway 99, near Mount Shasta, northern California - in the photo a couple of old cars.

Place: California - multiview, among them a castle from the air, Merre Rock, Santa Barbara, Yosemite Valley

Place: California - represent the cross-section of a giant redwood with marks on the growth circles starting from 909 AD, the Battle of Hastings, Magna Chara, the Discovery of America, the Declaration of Independenc and the 1930 circle of when the tree was cut down.

Place: California - Wild Rhododendron growths on the Redwood Highway near Cresent City. The plants bloom in May and June and can reach a height of 20 feet (about 6 mt).

Place: California - a redwood forest with the poem by Joseph B. Strauss, the builder of the Golden Gate Bridge. Redwoods, scientific name Sequoia Sempervirens, once widespread ove the northern hemisphere, survive in a narrow coastal belt in the north-east of California, surrounded by a thick undergrowth of ferns.