Landowner David Hampton planted larch pines in a Douglas fir forest in Oregon in the shape of a giant, 300 feet smiley face 🙂
Every autumn, the larch pines turn orange, and the smiley face stands out.
Landowner David Hampton planted larch pines in a Douglas fir forest in Oregon in the shape of a giant, 300 feet smiley face 🙂
Every autumn, the larch pines turn orange, and the smiley face stands out.

@marcioaleks nice! reminds me of bernd hopfengärtner's work shown at moma:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1071?installation_image_index=9
https://berndhopfengaertner.net/projects/hello-world/
edit: added link to the project on their website
@marcioaleks The German edition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_swastika?wprov=sfla1 🙄
Fortunately destroyed in the meantime.
Good one 🤭
@cogdog That and tacos. :)
Always time for a good taco!
(I need to carve time to write some blog posts!)
Do we know where in Oregon this is? I would love to create a time-lapse of the face fading in and out of the course of a year.
Yarg. Not quite big enough to show up on Landsat, at least, not in enough detail to tell it's a smile.
Yeah, I can see it on ordinary satellite. I was just hoping it could be recognized from Landsat, so that I could get frequent enough images of it to show a good time lapse, but no luck.
@Klaxun @marcioaleks Maybe I'll do it anyway, just for kicks.
"watch this fuzzy orange patch appear and disappear!"
Perhaps the most visible cultural icon in Simi Valley is "Happy Face Hill" seen by westbound drivers on the 118 freeway just west of Kuehner Drive . Although Northridge gardener Sonny Klamerus does not own the land used to display his creation that has been there since 1998, apparently