- When the lights go down in Atlanta's ‘Dialog in the Dark,' empathy for visually impaired people goes up -
- Hip bowling alleys cater to cosmo travelers with cocktails, sushi and lounge sounds -
- A whale of a vacation: San Juan Islands in Washington are the place to see orcas, enjoy other land, sea adventures -
- Any time is a good time to visit San Diego -
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Bryan Patrick/bpatrick@sacbee.com
The face of El Capitan is struck by a golden band of light that pokes through the cloud layer near sunset at Yosemite National Park in Nov. 1996.
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Jose Luis Villegas/jvillegas@sacbee.com
Peach trees burst into bloom and are greeted by yellow mustard seed in a Sacramento orchard on March 18, 1999. The orchard produced peaches, cherries, plums, apples, apricots, and almonds and is being cut down by developer Jim Lennane who is trying to sell the land.
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Dick Schmidt/The Sacramento Bee
Date palm trees at the Salton Sea are silhouetted at sunset. The Salton Sea, located about 225 feet below sea level in the desert of Southern California's Imperial and Riverside counties, was created in 1905-07 when an irrigation diversion levee on the Colorado River failed and the river flowed unchecked into the vast desert depression for 16 months. The largest body of water within California, the sea is saltier than the ocean.
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Dick Schmidt/The Sacramento Bee
Snow geese take flight against the nearly full moon in the morning sky within the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge near the sea's southern boundary in November 2002.
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Bryan Patrick/bpatrick@sacbee.com
A mountain top close to the Pacific Ocean stands above the clouds in Eureka on July 16, 2002.
