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LA Woman

My family recently spent some time in the beautiful and always impressive Southern California. This is where I was born, where my father and grandfather were born. And in some ways, it feels very much like home, while in others, it's as foreign to me as a completely different country. What I'm interested in at the moment, however, is something I just noticed while looking at Google Earth. Yes, I know I'm a geek - and you love me anyway. Thank goodness. I was noticing the different and contrasting ways in which the city looks from this image. Taken at a virtual altitude of about 50 miles, this image includes the Santa Ana range slashing across the middle of the image, with the Santa Monica Mountains and the San Gabriel Mountains on the north. The San Gabriel Mountains are the closest I got to snow until after I was eight years old and moved to Utah. It snowed that night, and in the morning I woke to the strangest and most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. It wa