Having recently spent a great deal of time hiking the forests of New England, the broad, grassy, and only sparsely forested hills of California are seeming more and more alien in my memory. With the fluffy intrusion of some low-lying clouds, the whole experience is rendered otherworldly.
Decaseconds 
I thought the same thing when I visited CA (from CT)…so much open space! It’s a big difference, but for all their strangeness (to my eyes), they were beautiful!