Rose Woods, the home of Don Gers and Michael Tallman since 1975,
is a 22 hectare mountainous landscape geologically part of the Sonoma Volcanics, in elevation from 1300 to 1900 feet in the Mayacmas Mountains of Sonoma County, California. The land is composed mainly of volcanic tuff interspersed with andesitic lava, ash layers and rare inclusions of foreign Franciscan rock from the ocean floor. Soil varies from nil on ridge crests to several feet deep in flatter areas. Volcanism produced petrified wood several million years ago and fragments are found in layers of the tuff. The Petrified Forest with redwoods, oaks and other ancient species is only two miles away as the crow flies. Subduction of the seafloor is responsible for the presence of a fossil island tree snail found within the Franciscan sedimentary rock.
Here is our entrance with climbing roses along the fence under Mexican palms photographed June 16, 2011
