Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Wild pomegranate (Burchellia bubalina): Season’s Greetings 2019 ! * * * Happy New Year LETTER



Season’s Greetings 2019!



Scott and Jane MacLeod, Christmas, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2019



Dear friends,

Happy New Year 2020! And Merry Christmas ...  A Desiderata poem focus in 2020: https://mwkworks.com/desiderata.html (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/antarctica-mcmurdo-bay-merry-christmas.html)? 

Global university work continues daily - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university - with regards to wiki MIT OCW-centric World University and School. And it looks like we'll collaborate with Harvard and MIT's edX in 2020 for WUaS's 2nd class for free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS Bachelor degrees. And glad to write I just published my 4th book "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to Soak at Harbin Hot Springs than to realize it in virtual Reality" (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity) - and which I had hoped would be in Google Street View, with time slider, by the time of publication, but potentially at some point! My actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography and poetry project continues, and am hoping to write and publish a 2nd actual-virtual Harbin ethnography FROM Google Street View with time slider in the next year or two! Will create my first Scottish small pipes' album this year, tentatively entitled Honey in the Bag,as well as publish my next book of poetry in 2020 too! Still seeking a life-partner with whom to begin a family. 

Happy New Year, and looking forward very much to seeing you in 2020! Here’s a poem from my new book with same name as title of book - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/chameleon-vision-poem-to-dance-or-pools.html?m=0 !

Is 2020 the year of the robot (or the 2020s) - and at World University and School too? And will the 2020s be the decade for Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital innovations, and Robot-Avatar Bot innovations too? And will we all have 'Avatar Bots' like email addresses (e.g. see the avatars in "Aphilo Scott MacLeod The Making of Virtual Harbin Introduction" - 

https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE) that correspond to physical robots even 

https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1212010632981237760?s=20 World University and School is also seeking to plan for, brainstorming-wise, coding for all 7.5 billion people for the following reasons (https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1213143381011914752?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1213144260825870337?s=20). 

All 7.5 billion people, each a Personal Identification Number PIN# (instead of a Wikidata Q-item # number) for: 


i) wiki Universitians in 7,111 known living languages, and matriculated students in all ~200 countries, 

ii) Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, with genetic therapies, and for molecular tele-robotic surgery, for ex., 

iii) Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments (and to alleviate poverty), and to DISTRIBUTE a single crypto-currency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (where the Euro is in 19 out of 28 EU countries, and backed by their central banks in one way or another) ... and potentially with UBI experiment recipients able, for example, to mine the "Mine Pi" crypto-currency (as a mineable single crypto-currency), developed by Stanford graduates, by clicking on the 'lightning button' brainstorming-wise. 

iv) a single family tree for genealogy research as in WikiTree (https://www.wikitree.com), and for aggregating DNA samples too (see item 2 again) ... and for innovative genealogical research.

v) Computer glasses for all 7.5 billion people on the planet - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/outback-3-computers-per-person-all-75.html ?


In what ways could WUaS plan in Wikdata for all 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q-item # and for the above reasons and many more (and keeping in sync with Wikipedia's mission of "the sum of all human knowledge" where all 7.5 billion people generate this with their language, for example)?





See, too these 'longevity' blog posts here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity - with interesting prospects for extending life or reversing aging, beyond 122 years of age with genetic therapies. 


It’s been another generative year for ideas in terms of daily blog posts - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - as well.

Happy New Year and best wishes to all of you and your loved ones in this holiday season!

Sincerely,
Scott
World University and School Founder and President

~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (~200 online major universities in countries' official languages, with open wiki schools in all 7,011 living languages planned) ~
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org


Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod  

World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch 

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod  


“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook 

(OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand )





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Seeking to find the article about the seriousness of global warming from Harvard in my blog from 2018 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/harvards-james-mccarthy-honored-for-climate-change-insights/ from http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/07/sailing-to-penikese-island.html (and other posts) to post in 1/1/20 blog entry ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/quaking-aspen-populus-tremuloides.html

And re longevity and age-reversal from Joi Ito and about Harvard and much about MIT Professor of Genetics George Church https://web.archive.org/web/20180605002848/https://www.wired.com/story/the-responsibility-of-immortality/ from https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/montane-ecosystems-longevity.html  in 12/31/19 blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html ... :)

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/artemisia-tridentata-optimism-about.html -





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Monday, December 30, 2019

Rosa persica: WUaS News Q&A #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA newly in #LightStream > http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 12/30/19 at 10a PT Topic: Your Questions / ideas @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Universities in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States @ScottMacLeod info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org to join * * Ajit's Tweet from West Bengal, India, and am wondering how best to LightStream these videos in Bengali and Hindi and your languages as well! Peter in German?, Other languages? * * * Couldn't LiveStream earlier today about ... These 22 million WikiTree profiles - and re WUaS Wikidata Q-item3s or related PIN# ...


Couldn't LiveStream earlier today about ...
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/chinese-elm-ulmus-parvifolia-these-22.html -

Chinese elm (Ulmus Parvifolia): These 22 million WikiTree profiles - and re WUaS Wikidata Q-item3s or related PIN# * The author Douglas Adams' Wikidata Q item # - https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42 - as WikiTree profile is the idea, - at WUaS too ... 

Chinese elm (Ulmus Parvifolia): These 22 million WikiTree profiles - and re WUaS Wikidata Q-item3s or related PIN# * The author Douglas Adams' Wikidata Q item # - https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42 - as WikiTree profile is the idea, - at WUaS too




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See ...

WUaS - World University and School worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com

1:10 PM (2 hours ago)
to DrewNicolaiVJAjitMirceaPeterJulianAndrzejIulianMohamedMilosAntsKohJoanTomatoorgFritzScottBillSainaniScottScottLarryJayniGovindYuping-CASPAtitoJuanKyle
World University and School's Light Stream didn't work 10 minutes ago, Peter, Drew and All, since it's in Beta and it changed again ... https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/rosa-persica-wuas-news-q.html ... 

Peter and Drew, suggestions? 
Here are some of the error messages:

Your YouTube account must be enabled for live streaming before broadcasting.
Fix It

Failed to start broadcast
Failed to authenticate YouTube for World University and School.

... from both Light Stream and YouTube ... 

Will try again in 2020, and on next Monday 6 January, 2019 at 10 am PT. 

Happy New Year!
Scott

World Univ & Sch 30 Dec 2019 Q & A and News 



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WUaS News Q&A #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA newly in #LightStream > http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 12/30/19 at 10a PT Topic: Your Questions / ideas
@WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Universities in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States @ScottMacLeod info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org to join



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1211658021765623809?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1211674360773263360?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1211674538880241664?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1211675653604626433?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1211676394603909121?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1211676606768570369?s=20



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WUaS - World University and School worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com

9:40 AM (1 hour ago)
to NicolaiVJAjitMirceaPeterJulianAndrzejIulianMohamedMilosAntsKohJoanTomatoorgFritzScottBillSainaniScottScott
Hi Universitians, 

Come join the conversation. I'm going to LightStream a World Univ & Sch News and Q & A at 10 am PT / 6:00 PM Monday, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or 1800 UTC, and via a Livestream too - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch.

Having just noticed Ajit's Tweet from West Bengal, India - 
https://twitter.com/ajitmishra71/status/1211653644593975299?s=20 - am wondering how best to LightStream these videos in Bengali and Hindi and your languages as well! Peter in German?

WUaS News Q&A #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA newly in #LightStream >http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 12/30/19 at 10a PT Topic: Your Questions / ideas
@WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Universities in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States @ScottMacLeod info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org to join
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1211674360773263360?s=20 - 

World Univ & Sch cheers, Scott



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! @WorldUnivandSch Mon 12/30/19 at 1pm ET, 10am PT Topic: Your Questions / ideas @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Universities in ~200 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States' Langs email @ScottMacLeod info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org to join
#WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/rosa-persica-wuas-news-q.html -

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1211684615041298433?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1211684969485152259?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1211685171927429120?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1211685322951741440?s=20


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World Univ & Sch's Live Stream begins in about 20 minutes: 


Come join the conversation in Light Stream - https://studio.golightstream.com/. I'm going to try to LightStream a Monday 30 Dec 2019 World Univ & Sch News and Q & A at 10 am PT / 1 pm Eastern Time / 6:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or 1800 UTC, and via a Livestream too - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch.

Cheers, Scott


World Univ & Sch 30 Dec 2019 Q & A and News 




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Sunday, December 29, 2019

Rose of Provins (Rosa gallica): In what ways was NASA influenced by hippies in the 1960s and '70s, and related social movements ... especially with putting people on the moon in 1969, and with, for ex. Maggie Hamilton (who went to Quaker Earlham College, before MIT) ... and as space organization? ... and re chain of command questions, and so much more ... * People landing on the moon in 1969 * * * Manuel Castells on the Information Technology Revolution and implications for peace,



Hi Kris, (and Hugh),

Very nice to meet and talk with you on Christmas Eve at the Unitarian church in Pittsburgh. How is your trip to North Carolina going? I'm also writing to let you know about this Virtual Choir wiki subject at MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Choir - for open teaching and learning, and which I'm developing. World Univ & Sch would like to facilitate online choirs and music-making in real, real time, as well as much else musically :) - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School. (I've sung in the 1st UU choir of Pgh in 2006-2007, and in the Unitarian Universalist Choir of Palo Alto's choir about 2 years ago for a semester, which is near Stanford). It would be great to explore World Univ & Sch ONLINE musical develops further. 

At Betsy's suggestion, I'm writing to ask if you could possibly please share A's contact information. I've invited Betsy and A. to New Year's Eve, and Betsy doesn't seem to have access to A’s info. I'd also like to inquire with A. about win-win language learning opportunities; re becoming pen-pals or for video-language-exchanges - since I'd like to explore improving my German speaking, listening, writing and reading). Thank you!

Happy New Year!

Musical regards, Scott

e.g. see:
( - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects )



Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

Cheers, Scott




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In what ways was NASA influenced by hippies in the 1960s and '70s, and related social movements ... especially with putting people on the moon in 1969, and with, for ex. Maggie Hamilton (who went to Quaker Earlham College, before MIT)? And what were the influences of the 1960s and 1970s re hippies on NASA as a space organization, especially with regard to innovation and creativity? ... and with regard to chain of command questions, and so much more in a related vein ... * People landing on the moon in 1969 * * * Manuel Castells on the Information Technology Revolution and implications for peace ...


https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/first-person-on-moon.html

https://www.history.com/topics/space-exploration/moon-landing-1969

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html







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Saturday, December 28, 2019

Milkweed in seed: Renwick Gallery VIRTUAL & AUGMENTED REALITY Flowers, and Washington DC museums * Fascinating Smithsonian virtual exhibit at the Renwick Gallery on Thursday, 27 Dec 2019!



On Friday, December 27, 2019

Hi Karen, and Erica (and Janie Ma),

Thanks again so much for your hospitality in Washington DC after Christmas. It was really nice to see you and to visit.

Am seeking to send a few great photos to you from a different (less full) email account - musicalmacflower@gmail.com - above, and soon.

Hugs, your cousin, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Art -

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- http://scottmacleod.com





Karen Leighty Janie MacLeod cousins in front of Renwick Gallery 12 27 2019.jpg



Karen Leighty Janie MacLeod smiling in front of Renwick Gallery 12 27 2019.jpg




Karen and Janie in line at African American Art Museum Washingston Monument 12 27 2019.jpg



Karen on wall and Janie in line at National Museum of American Indian 12 27 2019.jpg



The 3 of us Scott Karen Janie in front of White House 12 27 2019.jpg



The above photos were taken by Scott MacLeod





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Photos taken by Karen Leighty in the Renwick Gallery:


Jane MacLeod Renwick museum with Karen Leighty Scott MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg



Scott MacLeod Renwick gallery with Karen Leighty Jane MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg




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On 3:50PM, Sun, Jan 12, 2020 Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com wrote:
Janie and Karen,
And here a few more Renwick AR pictures, - and, in particular, how the exhibit worked, which I found innovative:
1 hold tablet up to ceramic stump on gallery floor - bar code connects
2 see augmented reality in tablet
3 see virtual text description of AR
4 see artist's flower painting on wall, upon which the AR flower is based.
Grant Kirkpatrick did the multimedia, and Ginny Ruffner, the flower paintings. 
Good exploratory use of AR in major museum :) 
Scott :)




Renwick Gallery ceramic tree stump on gallery floor 27 Dec 2019.jpg



Renwick Gallery hold tablet up to ceramic stump on gallery floor - bar code connects 27 Dec 2019



Renwick Gallery ceramic tree stump and tablet together 27 Dec 2019.jpg



Renwick Gallery DC Blue flower drawing 27 Dec 2019.jpg




Renwick Gallery DC full tablet Rosa AR 27 Dec 2019.jpg




Renwick Gallery DC tablet Rosa AR sign 27 Dec 2019.jpg




Renwick Gallery DC Rosa drawing 27 Dec 2019.jpg




Renwick Gallery DC Hummingbird flower sign Rosa 27 Dec 2019.jpg



Renwick Gallery DC About the Artist Ruffner sign 27 Dec 2019.jpg



Renwick Gallery DC Video Pic Ginny Ruffner 27 Dec 2019.jpg


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Saw a fascinating Smithsonian virtual exhibit at the Renwick Gallery museum in Washington DC on Thursday, December 27, 2019!

Grant Kirkpatrick and Ginny Ruffner


A new installation at the Renwick combines sculpture, augmented reality and hope

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/2019/06/27/new-installation-renwick-combines-sculpture-augmented-reality-hope/

https://americanart.si.edu/books/ruffner

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/ruffner



https://americanart.si.edu/press/2019/20/ginny-ruffner-reforestation-imagination-transforms-renwick-gallery-post-apocalyptic





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On Saturday, December 28, 2019

Explored the actual-virtual at the
National Arboretum too ...
and re the Bonsai exhibit ...

Hope to post some Bonsai's ...



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In the afternoon, went to the Phillips Museum ...

picture of the music room

would like to play my Scottish small pipes here as my 'Honey in the Bag' album comes out




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On 3:32PM, Sun, Jan 12, 2020 Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com wrote:
Karen and Ma,
I also found a very nice 53 second video of you walking / us on the Washington Mall on that brilliant day, but it's over the 25 MB limit of my Gmail account, so will have to wait for another day.
Perhaps I'll be able to post it ny blog or similar.
In the meantime I'm including a few pictures from the virtual flower / augmented reality exhibit from the Renwick ...
:)
Hugs, Scott


On Jan 12, 2020 3:05 PM, "Scott MacLeod" <musicalmacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Here too are
The 3 of us, Scott, Karen, Janie in front of White House
You 2 in front of Renwick Gallery :)
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2
3


Scott



On 2:59PM, Sun, Jan 12, 2020 Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Karen, and Ma,
Karen on wall and Janie in line at National Museum of American Indian
African Art Museum 
Fondly, Scott




On 2:50PM, Sun, Jan 12, 2020 Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Karen, and Erica, 

Thanks again so much for your hospitality in Washington DC after Christmas. It was really nice to see you and to visit. 

Am seeking to send a few great photos to you from a different (less full) email account - musicalmacflower@gmail.com - above, and soon. 

Hugs, your cousin, Scott





On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:08 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks so much for these great, great photos, Karen!

Your email here came when ... see below ...

Jane MacLeod Renwick museum with Karen Leighty Scott MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg
Scott MacLeod Renwick gallery with Karen Leighty Jane MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg

Have been intending to do a blog post about visiting the Renwick museum, (and related virtual experiences even), and other museums in DC with you for a while, and will add all the good photos I took to this, and may send some along as well, if it isn't easy for you to download them! (Perhaps by Sunday!) And blogged a bit today -about all the robotics' language + - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/taiga-aphilo-scott-macleod-making-of.html - I've been hearing from you both :)

Memories are an interesting avenue to head in too with family history at some point. How best to do this in a focused way even? :)

Warm regards, Scott


P.S.: Your email here came when I was on a great walk out the 'ridge road' near where I live in Canyon 94516 in East Bay MUD (Municipal Utilities District) ... which is basically at least a 7 miles' long drive in green wood south from where I live to out of the 'park', (and contains Oakland's San Leandro water reservoir ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_Municipal_Utility_District) ... with amazing views of the tops of mountains (like Mt Diablo) around here with NO houses or development on them due to great late urban planning. While there are no houses atop these big hills and ranges, there are big cities all around too including Lafayette, Concord, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton ... and quite a few more ... all fairly new large cities too, and close to the rest of the SF Bay Area cities. :) ... It's 331 square miles of watershed with about 7 reservoirs - 

Thanks again for these great photo memories! 




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On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 3:27 PM Karen Leighty <karen.leighty@gmail.com> wrote:
I missed out on photo ops while you were here, but these will have to do as memories —






Sent from my iPhone
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- World University and School
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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

4:08 PM (2 hours ago)
to KarenJane
Thanks so much for these great, great photos, Karen!

Your email here came when ... see below ...

Jane MacLeod Renwick museum with Karen Leighty Scott MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg
Scott MacLeod Renwick gallery with Karen Leighty Jane MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg

Have been intending to do a blog post about visiting the Renwick museum, (and related virtual experiences even), and other museums in DC with you for a while, and will add all the good photos I took to this, and may send some along as well, if it isn't easy for you to download them! (Perhaps by Sunday!) And blogged a bit today -about all the robotics' language + - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/taiga-aphilo-scott-macleod-making-of.html - I've been hearing from you both :)

Memories are an interesting avenue to head in too with family history at some point. How best to do this in a focused way even? :)

Warm regards, Scott


P.S.: Your email here came when I was on a great walk out the 'ridge road' near where I live in Canyon 94516 in East Bay MUD (Municipal Utilities District) ... which is basically at least a 7 miles' long drive in green wood south from where I live to out of the 'park', (and contains Oakland's San Leandro water reservoir ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_Municipal_Utility_District) ... with amazing views of the tops of mountains (like Mt Diablo) around here with NO houses or development on them due to great late urban planning. While there are no houses atop these big hills and ranges, there are big cities all around too including Lafayette, Concord, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton ... and quite a few more ... all fairly new large cities too, and close to the rest of the SF Bay Area cities. :) ... It's 331 square miles of watershed with about 7 reservoirs - 

Thanks again for these great photo memories!














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