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title: A most beautiful place
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- sonoma
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- santarosa
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The wind carries the spring
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along the roadside
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down, over, and through the hills.
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Winter's rain did come; too late to help.
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Lush green grasses, bright mustard flower
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carpet the valley,
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overcoming the thistles of blackened trees.
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The hillsides freckled, still carry October's scars.
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Around the bend, the colors recede
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to fences no more,
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but piles of rubble; vacancy.
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People once lived here, in this most beautiful place.
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I wrote this a few months ago, just before summer started, while driving from
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Santa Rosa to Napa along Highway 12. The ruins in Santa Rosa and Glen Ellen
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provided stark contrast against the explosion of colors typical of a Sonoma
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county spring.
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Once again large wildfires blaze across Northern California, less than fifty
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miles to the north in Mendocino county, at times with epic plumes of smoke
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visible from my neighborhood in Santa Rosa.
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We are all painfully aware of fire season.
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