More Photo Inspiration for Crow's Rest

Whenever we travel, it just makes me love where we live even more. Not because traveling is such a nightmare, but because we live in a place with beautiful vistas: rivers, lakes, mountains, rolling hills, quaint historic towns, and only a few hours from the Pacific coast.

Makes perfect sense that I would choose to set my WIP in a Sierra foothill town, albeit a made-up one. Crow's Rest is a thinly-veiled amalgam of several foothill towns, some of which can be surprisingly urbane. Not urban, mind you, which is part of their charm, but with fabulous restaurants and impressive locally grown wines.

One such town is now a state historic park, and I used to be a docent there about a decade ago. We went back recently and the pictures I took are the perfect subjects for a photo essay (click on each one to see it bigger):


An overview of the town nestled along the American River




Detail of the oak trees with their woolly fall coat of moss



One of the historic churches




A springhouse along the trail



 And my favorite foothill find--historic cemeteries!


Hope you enjoyed this vicarious trip!

2 comments:

RAD - Dot Painter said...

The cemetery looks like a place out of Vampire Diaries. Did the fog roll in minutes after you took this? :)

Angelica R. Jackson said...

Not this time, but there were crows flying overhead!

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