We Are Now In the ZMM Narrator's "Wine Country". As He Says "Exquisite!"
I was indeed thrilled with the beauty of these irrigated valleys, with row after row of grape vines, set before the distant low hills. At every turn in the road, I grabbed my camera, and stabbed on the brakes at the first available wide palace. But this also created a problem. At every stop I wanted to gather my 360 degree full circle panorama shots. This required me to stand by the highway and keep my eye (and full attention) in the camera viewfinder and rotate the camera (and me) full circle, as I staged & shot each of the 8 needed photographs. Through all this, I became thoroughly rattled, because I could not see the on-coming high speed cars. There was a near continuous flow of cars that were whoooshing-on-by-me. In my state of semi-blindness, they seemed to practically brushed my knees! Although I was completely unnerved by this jam, I stood my ground, and came home with some five wine country panoramas safely packed into my 128MB Compact Flash Card. Look for these (soon) in my Panorama Album in this Gallery of Web Photos.
Eight miles South of Ukiah, CA.
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