Spring Flowers, Oak Grassland Hills, Clearing Fog. Calero Hills, California. April 18, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Soft sunlight begings to illuminate spring flowers and meadows on rolling hills with hilltop oak trees in distant fog.

This is a different view of a scene I posted earlier in a landscape format rendition that differed a bit in some other ways as well. In mid-April I found myself on the boundary between fog and sun during a morning hike at Calero Park south of San Jose. Where I stood the sun was just breaking through the lifting fog, and there were shadows and diffuse sunlight alternately played across this little valley and the hills beyond with a fog shrouded ridge and trees beyond.

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