Birds Landing: Discovering simple pleasures in Bay Area country

At the bottom of yellow hills, where old wooden windmills creek in the shadows of massive turbines is a town you've probably never visited.

It doesn't have a movie theater, restaurant supermarket or even a gas station.

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