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Top left; Figure 9 – Coastal Stone; Italy; 11 x 5 x 8 cm
Top right; Figure 10 – Coastal Stone; Japan; 7 x 4 x 3 cm Middle left; Figure 11 – Coastal Stone; USA; 8 x 3 x 4 cm Bottom; Figure 12 – Distant Mountain Stone; Italy; 5 x 3 x 2 cm Inset; Half Dome, Yosemite Park, USA
For more than 30 years, we lived just outside of San Francisco. From Northern California to Oregon, there are hundreds of miles of beautiful coastline. These stones allow us to bring some of that coastline into our home where it can be observed and enjoyed as we walk through our living room or den.
These three coastal stones displayed in bronze dobans, Figures 9 to 11, reflect the rustic, water-beat- en coastal rocks so familiar to those who have driven Highway 1 from California to Northern Oregon.
And speaking of Northern California, how about Yosemite’s Half Dome made famous by one of the greatest landscape photographers of all time, Ansel Adams?
Half Dome, Figure 12, is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park in Yosemite Valley. Our own Half Dome measures barely two inches (5 cm) wide, yet it represents the grandeur of one of the most well- known rock formations rising more than 4,734 feet (1,444 meters) above the valley floor.
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