A pair of valleys ~ Canyon, California
Hi Ma, Sandy, All,
There are a pair of valleys out here where I live in Canyon 94516, on a ridge. Here's Canyon: https://www.google.com/maps/
On one side of the ridge is the wilder side, "Indian Valley," I've heard it called, part of East Bay MUD (Municipal Utilities' District) and which probably long has been used for cattle ranching.
On the other side is the Canyon valley, with its US Post Office, and K-8 public school, about 1/3rd of a mile apart from each other, and both at the bottom of the valley - where this valley is kinda wild in its own way. There might be another 80-100 dwellings throughout a California sequoia/red wood as well as scrub oak type forest - or "redwood groves and ferns along the creek, through the mixed live oak, bay, and madrone forests on the steep hillsides, up to the chaparral and knobcone pines that grow along the ridge." Check out John van der Zee's 1972 book "Canyon: The Story of the Last Rustic Community in Metropolitan America" - https://www.grizzlypeakpress.
I live about 25 minutes away from Berkeley, and 40 minutes from downtown San Francisco, in the left wing of this 3 dwelling house - https://www.google.com/maps/
I haven't seen any pairs of mallards in Canyon however :)
Both valleys have their own 'wildnesses,' and I live in the middle of this pair - a bit betwixt and between liminality-wise (in seeking perhaps a more civilized 'vision' of life, or of living in community) - and am developing MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School. Click on the photo of the Adobe house here - https://www.google.com/
Thanks again for the photo of the pair of mallards, Ma!
Warmly, Scott
My actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography has an alternative culture, or countercultural, focus, from the 1960s forward, too -
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Ma (Janie), Ann, Sandy, All
If you spin the image of the 'Adobe' house (URL is below again) to the left just a bit, you can "walk" down the road to where I live, about 1/4 of a "mile." I think there's a "764 Ridgecrest Road image" or two - as an Easter Egg to find :) - which is where I live, and you can see my house-let from there too.
I also found these interesting photos, and Canyon visit, in a blog entry by one Manuel Garcia jr. -
A visit to Canyon, California (May 2016)
https://manuelgarciajr.com/
In my ongoing actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, am seeking to facilitate the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin for actual-virtual comparison, soaking, visiting, as well as STEM research, and also via a new social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-
For example, too, "walk" down the road 4 "miles' from the Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~) and "wander" around the streets of the nearby "town," Middletown, CA. You can't go in the Harbin gate to visit Harbin itself yet, and at this point.
So here's a new definition of the Harbin experience, from Harbin itself (which I just found here - https://harbin.org):
"Harbin experience ~ New def: "In its most common form, ‘The #HarbinExperience’ can be consciousness-altering and deeply transpersonal, with a feeling of unity, and mental and physical calmness. Many of our guests return to Harbin to reconnect with this experience" > @HarbinBook ~"
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Harbin experience ~ New def: "In its most common form, ‘The #HarbinExperience’ can be consciousness-altering and deeply transpersonal, with a feeling of unity, and mental and physical calmness. Many of our guests return to Harbin to reconnect with this experience" > @HarbinBook ~ https://t.co/piE0oIrcaO— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) May 18, 2020
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Harbin experience def: "In its most common form, ‘The #HarbinExperience’ can be consciousness-altering and deeply transpersonal, with a feeling of unity, & mental & physical calmness. Many of our guests return to Harbin to reconnect with this experience">#RealisticVirtualHarbin~ https://t.co/hK9V7nX82z— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) May 18, 2020
How to generate the 'Harbin experience' in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin - https://twitter.com/hashtag/
I haven't sought to find any species in Google Street View yet, like a pair of Mallards, but will keep you posted. And, importantly, Ma and all, you could you add your photo of this pair of mallards to Google Street View (itself), but not to Google Maps, or Google Earth, as I understand this. ... which is kind of the wiki idea ... (who here has added a sentence or a word to Wikipedia ?)
Scott
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'Canyon' blog label in my blog as well - https://scott-macleod.
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Adobe house here - https://www.google.com/maps/
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Am thinking this is all a kind of 'history'
or 'virtual worlds' related -
... and you can wiki-edit these, learn from, teach to, these wiki subjects at WUaS too - and check out their MIT OpenCourseWare, eventually for free-to-students' online degrees ...
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Pair of Mallard Ducks
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