TEMECULA VALLEY
The city of Temecula lies approximately 2 hours southeast of Los Angeles, California and an hour north of San Diego, California and the Mexican border. Every year in this famous Southern California town, Temecula has the Temecula Wine and Jazz Festival and many of its local wineries. Temecula has quickly grown into a central hub for many San Diego and Los Angeles commuters. This photograph is of a Lake near the Michi Studio here in Temecula. This man-made lake lies close to a local school and is the central point in a community rich in culture, activities, education and recreation. The walking course around the lake has become the place of the breather for Michi.

RECENT THOUGHTS
The human population continues to increase and the planet is becoming a place where I feel that creatures cannot live if I do not do my part in reducing the economic dependency on oil, including the over usage of automobiles. It is time to put to use and revolutionize the ground breaking sciences that humankind has developed to the highest level in our history. We have to end conventional competition, destruction (war), monopolies, and covert practices. We must aim at coexistence, cooperation and openness on a global scale. If the auto industry would develop a mentality where car manufacturers throughout the world would remove corporate barriers, share state of the art technologies, and allow their engineers to share opinions with each other, then maybe it would become possible to create a more eco-friendly, high quality vehicle. This would facilitate the reduction, and possibly, total removal of gasoline powered vehicles.

I believe that with a change to the current systems that we are relied upon now, and more consideration on the ecosystem, all creatures will be able to live more happy lives.