Yes those are the ones. They grow all along the coasts in Northern California, and especially around Monterey Ca. Here's an old pic from 2006 of Monterey Cypresses in Land's End. They're bending eastward away from the winds of the Pacific that blow non stop into the Golden Gate. The cypress can grow a few miles inland too and are plentiful in Golden Gate Park, but they like the fog and proximity to the ocean best.
The ones away from the winds can get pretty tall and huge, with a canopy way high in the air, while the ones subject to high winds don't get so high because they would probably fall over from all their weight leaning over with the winds. Maybe the windswept ones put all their growth into a root system that holds them into the rocky grounds one sees around the coast. About 20 years ago there was a huge windstorm in SF and some of the tallest most majestic Monterey Cypress trees in Golden Gate Park got blown over or were broken because of the high winds. They had to be removed. The trunks were about 4 feet across, maybe more, when they were sawn down.
I am now searching for pics of that windstorm, and so far I found this page about some more extreme windstorms in history on the West coast of the US. The stats are awesome.
In my old computer which is now defunct, I had Adobe Elements 2.0. I used several of the tools in there to alter this picture to look like the painters from around 1915 who painted these trees a lot in their paintings. A favorite of mine from among the painters of that era was Arthur Frank Mathews. Here is one of his paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC:
Ooh, I like that! Thanks you. Did you get your Adobe off that machine so you could use it?
I will have to go look for more by that artist. I used to subscribe to the Met Museum feed they have here at DW, but they posted all this esoteric stuff that I didn't like a whole lot, so I dropped it.
He and his wife Lucia were both excellent painters. They are both well represented in the Oakland Museum collection. Arthur Mathews murals are in various public buildings in Oakland and San Francisco, and in the state capitol in Sacramento. It is probable that Arthur Mathews and Robinson Jeffers were acquainted and probably good friends. They each put forth a heroic vision of California in their own ways that survives somewhat today.
I actually decided not to put it on the new machine and just use the basic tools in photobucket and in iPhoto. You get all of those tools to play with and I don't know, they get in the way of your ideas somehow. I don't really miss the Adobe.
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Date: 2010-10-29 07:15 pm (UTC)Aren't the cypress the ones which become windswept looking when they are right in the windline? At least the cypress bushes?
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Date: 2010-10-29 08:33 pm (UTC)The ones away from the winds can get pretty tall and huge, with a canopy way high in the air, while the ones subject to high winds don't get so high because they would probably fall over from all their weight leaning over with the winds. Maybe the windswept ones put all their growth into a root system that holds them into the rocky grounds one sees around the coast. About 20 years ago there was a huge windstorm in SF and some of the tallest most majestic Monterey Cypress trees in Golden Gate Park got blown over or were broken because of the high winds. They had to be removed. The trunks were about 4 feet across, maybe more, when they were sawn down.
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Date: 2010-10-29 11:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-29 11:24 pm (UTC)Google book link a mile long
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Date: 2010-10-29 11:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-30 01:04 am (UTC)I will have to go look for more by that artist. I used to subscribe to the Met Museum feed they have here at DW, but they posted all this esoteric stuff that I didn't like a whole lot, so I dropped it.
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Date: 2010-10-30 03:18 am (UTC)I actually decided not to put it on the new machine and just use the basic tools in photobucket and in iPhoto. You get all of those tools to play with and I don't know, they get in the way of your ideas somehow. I don't really miss the Adobe.