100 Things I Like: The View from Cienega Road

This is looking northwesterly from the high point on Cienega Road. Until this moment, as I'm looking at the photo, I realize that way down yonder beyond the hill tops (mountain tops?) is more than just San Juan Valley.  Here's how the view looks during the Spring.


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100 Things I Like: Santa Ana Mountain

That's a view of Santa Ana Mountain on a late afternoon. The husband and I are on  John Smith Road, the curvy part through the hills before you come out to the wow! view of Santa Ana Valley.

When I used to not live in Hollister, and came to visit my family, I knew I was home the moment I saw Santa Ana Mountain from the Bolsa. This mountain peak was what I saw in the near distance from our back yard everyday when we lived on Hillcrest.

For different views of Santa Ana Mountain, please click here. For a look upclose from Lone Tree Road, please click here.

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100 Things I Like: The Growing Cycle on the Bolsa

As you drive in or out of Hollister on the Bolsa (Highway 25), you can see food grow right before your eyes. For real. Day in, day out. All year round.

Sometimes, like yesterday, you can see plowed fields ready to be sown. . .

while nearby fields are being harvested. . .

We're rather fortunate.

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A Scar-y Tree in Hollister

It doesn't take much to scare me. This tree's scars, for instance. Sure, I stopped and took a photo. But, it was in broad daylight and the husband was with me. Where is this tree? In the neighborhood on the southwest side of Park Hill.

100 Things I Like: No Traffic Jams

Absolutely none. So what, if I have to wait through another cycle of lights to turn left from San Benito Street onto Tres Pinos Road, or from Sunnyslope Road onto Highway 25. That totally beats the 30 minutes, sometimes 45 minutes, of driving four or five blocks in San Francisco to get onto an exit to the Bay Bridge during the early afternoon commute, which I used to do for a short while many years ago. I won't even grumble about the stop and go traffic on the bridge. So, yes, when it comes to traffic, we have it made in Hollister.

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