The Green Hills Of Earth

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This here is a set of hills by a rest stop on Hwy 46 between Lost Hills and Paso Robles, California.

I took the picture Wednesday while travelling to my relative’s wedding in Pacific Grove. My camera phone really can’t do justice to it (I’m assuming that in a few years we’ll have camera phones that take really stunning photos), but it was a marvel of natural beauty. The hills in this area are free of trees and rocks and almost totally free of bushes, weeds, flowers, and anything other than grass.

They have a gently curved shape that can only be produced by wind erosion on dirt (as opposed to rock). In fact, there are high wind warning signs all along the highways in this area.

The hills are larger than the photo makes them look. That’s a telephone pole in the foreground, but it’s quite a distance in front of the hills. There’s some kind of a building farther in the background, and the hills themselves are huge.

I’d love to have clumb up them if I wasn’t on a way to a wedding.

Absolutely gorgeous to behold.

Incidentially, I’m going to be posting more pictures from life soon.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin