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The male has an eight-foot wing span. There were
           hundreds of salmon in the creek, heading for the fish
           ladder just outside the Hearth Center before returning to
           Blue Lake to spawn. I laughed out loud one morning when
           a baby squirrel fell out of one of the pine trees onto the
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           scampering away. There was also a resident blue jay who   tion.
           was quite a persistent character. He'd hit the railing of
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           at me as if to say, "Okay, sister, cough up the food!"
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           I really miss my fellow artists at Caldera. Even though we                                                        Woman
           spent most of the days and nights working alone or in the
           center studios, we all got incredibly close. The whole ex-
           perience of being there was amazing -- almost Zen. There   Photography                                         25
           is something about being in the woods where, except for   Submit local photographs that
           the sound of the creek outside your window or the wind
           blowing through the trees, there is nothing but you and   depict the beauty of San Diego.
           your work. I felt a sense of everything falling away -- all
           of the noise and material trappings -- and experienced    Photo credits will be proudly
           a heightened state of awareness. Everything you do up
           there, from lighting a fire to walking along the lake shore to   displayed with your pictures.
           putting words on a page, becomes filled with intention. It
           was very hard to leave.
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