{"title":"The Monterey Peninsula, California","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE MONTEREY PENINSULA, CALIFORNIA\u003c\/strong\u003e | \u003cem\u003e\"Where the Pacific Meets the Pines\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Monterey Peninsula is the most biologically and visually concentrated coastal landscape in North America — a granite headland extending into the Pacific at the meeting point of the California Current and the deep cold upwelling of Monterey Bay, where the Lone Cypress on its wind-carved rock, the Pebble Beach fairways above Stillwater Cove, the kelp forests visible from the glass walls of the world's most important marine aquarium, and the Steinbeck-documented streets of Cannery Row exist within a seven-mile radius. Point Lobos, just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, is the point where the Santa Lucia granite meets the Pacific in a collision of tidal surge channels, harbor seal colonies, and the endemic Monterey cypress that Ansel Adams called the greatest meeting of land and water in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colors are the specific palette of the California coastal fog belt: the deep blue-grey of the Pacific under overcast skies in the morning, the warm amber of the Monterey cypress needles when the fog burns off at noon, the specific grey-green of the iceplant covering the coastal bluffs above Carmel Beach, and the extraordinary deep gold of the Point Lobos headlands when the late afternoon sun finally clears the marine layer and lights the granite from a low westerly angle.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"monterey-peninsula-california-original-series-gallery-canvas","title":"The Monterey Peninsula, California | Original Series Gallery Canvas | The Painted Passport®","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE MONTEREY PENINSULA, CALIFORNIA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Monterey Peninsula is the most scenically concentrated stretch of coastline in North America — seventeen miles of Highway 1 where the Santa Lucia Mountains descend to a rocky Pacific shoreline of sea stacks, kelp forests, and white sand beaches, and where the quality of light on a clear California morning produces a palette of aquamarine, warm granite, and deep coastal green that painters have been attempting to capture since the late nineteenth century. The Lone Cypress, standing alone on a granite outcrop above the Pacific at Pebble Beach, has been photographed more times than almost any other tree on earth, and the combination of the Monterey cypress silhouette against the open ocean and the Santa Lucia range disappearing into coastal haze behind it is one of the defining images of the American West Coast. The Peninsula also contains Point Lobos State Natural Reserve — the crown jewel of the California State Park system and one of the richest marine environments in the world — where harbor seals, sea otters, Steller sea lions, and migrating gray whales move through kelp forests directly below the coastal trail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis high-quality canvas print brings the extraordinary coastal light and the iconic landscape of the Monterey Peninsula into your living space — the pale aquamarine of the sheltered Pacific coves, the warm gold of the granite sea stacks, the deep coastal green of the Monterey cypress, and the pale blue of the California coast range disappearing into haze. 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