from Las Vegas drive to Death Valley. stop at Zabrinskie Point for the view. michelangelo antonioni made a movie in 1970 called Zabrinskie Point
from Death Valley drive on highway 395 to Mono Lake. Mono Lake is an ancient lake over 1 million years old on the east side of the Sierra Nevadas. at Mono Lake view the many "tufa towers" composed calcium-carbonate spires and knobs formed by the interaction of freshwater springs and alkaline lake water.
from Mono Lake keep driving on highway 395 north towards the Sonora Pass. cross the Sierra Nevadas drive up steep switchbacks following a dotted white line. once over the Sonora Pass the road leaves the mountains and crosses the foothills before entering the flattening central valley Modesto then interstate 5.



petaluma california




The rainy season in California lasts from October through May. In the summer there is virtually no precipitation. The green grasses dry up.

The hills become ochre brown. Summer over the dried grasses and sage shrubs begin to burn.

is a farming community fifty miles north of San Francisco and ten miles east of the Pacific Ocean. In betweent he coastal fog moistened hills and the central valley sun desiccated hills.

Zoning regulations have contained the sprawl which produces shopping malls and tract homes creeping ever out wards. The sprawl is contained along highway 101.

The hills just outside the city limits are still primarily agricultural. Cattle stray on hillsides.

Rows of grape vines crawl up slopes resemble braided heads. The roads weave around rounded domes.

A steel rod sticks out from a coffee can filled with concrete to create the weight to hold the pole erect with nexus pad attached to the top. A video animation plays on the computer pad womanWalkingRotterdam. The weighted coffee can sits on the blacktop county road heading to Petaluma.

The video animation features a young woman walking down a street in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She is originally from somewhere in Africa perhaps Surinam or may be South Africa.







video still from the original source video

womanWalkingRotterdam



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