You may already be aware that Apple products have gotten very expensive. It came time to replace my computer and I found that the successor model to my old Mac Mini was $1000 higher, more than double, what my 2012 model had been. So I started looking around for alternatives and decided to give what's known as a hackintosh a try. This is a computer built with Windows compatible components that is tweaked to run Mac OS. Alas, Apple is doing a good job of protecting their intellectual property making it very hard to run that Mac OS on Windows hardware. Of course, my skills in this area are poor, so in the end I failed and put Windows 10 on my Windows hardware computer. Note that this isn't a great solution for Apple or me, as I am now working on the Windows OS instead of Mac. Oh well.
So Windows 10 is enough different to cause a learning curve, but one interesting thing that they do is offer pretty landscape pictures on their boot-up screen and those change over time. You even get to tell it which pictures you like so that they tune it to your taste.
That sent me on an internet quest to download some nice free pictures for wallpaper on the Windows box. With that success, I noticed that my Mac, which I still use, was a little boring in the wallpaper department. So, I went looking through my pictures for interesting alternatives. And that brought me back to my 2011 trip to northern California. Several of these I had posted earlier, but heck, that was 8 years ago.
Wandering the backroads, I came across several interesting farm trucks. These were both in the foothills just west of the Russian River Valley. Both are Fords from a similar, if not the same era.
I will throw in the traditional ocean shoreline shot and a picture of a Mendocino cottage, mainly for the contrast between the wood and the green grass.
But the thing that got my camera's attention was the moss growing in range of the mist from the ocean. Enjoy.
Armstrong State Natural Reserve
Porter Creek
Pine Flats
Moss Fence
