Eucalyptus & Redwoods on Montebello Avenue

U.S. #895 "The Three Graces"
(issued April 14, 1940)

Eucalyptus & Redwoods
on Montebello Avenue

Photographs from Mountain View

(5-24-2014, 12-20-2017, 2-11-2018)

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

Monaco #1986 "Springtime"
(issued October 24, 1985)

Preface: I've lived at Paulson Park Apartments since April 2014. Each day, I run down Montebello Ave and Montecito Ave to catch Bus #40 on Rengstorff Avenue to Foothill College Krause Center Computer Lab in Los Altos Hills. I've honored the trees with a poem "Four Friends on Montebello Ave" (7-13-2014). The giant Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus sideroxylon) at the southern end has three huge trunks. I've called it "The Three Graces" recalling Botticelli's portrayal of them on the left side of his painting Primavera (1478) at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Wrote a poem "Entering the Primavera" (11-22-1992) and the symbolism of the painting (3-21-1996). I also stop at the Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), touch its trunk, and ask for blessings. On Dec. 20, 2017, I noticed two more redwoods further back that are ten paces away from each other. These three giant sequoias are my new "Three Graces". Recalling my visit to Yosemite Mariposa Grove's "Bachelor & Three Graces", I've assembled the photos below, and wrote the poem "The Three Graces on Montebello Ave" (2-11-2018).