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Victoria Advocate, Texas, News To Me column.(Column)
From: Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX)
Date: 20070628
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Byline: Jim Bishop
Jun. 28--Along the shore ye lift your rugged arms, Blackened with many fires, and with hoarse chant.
'THE PINE FOREST OF MONTEREY' -- Bayard Taylor
The most beautiful pines I've ever seen are on the slopes above Lake Tahoe.
Huge -- more stately and grand than anything by the hand of man could be.
Ponderosa pines, with a girth so great you couldn't put your arms all the way around one. And tall -- like they were reaching for Heaven. I had to slow down as I drove through the huge forest of them, so quiet and peaceful -- like I was being ...
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