This cache is inspired by the TV Series The Big Valley. Up and at em' all you Baby Boomers! The series ran four seasons from 1965-69. Who can forget the “tempestuous “Audra played by Linda Evans. Even though it is not considered to be prime time soap. I think it had all the elements. You be the judge. You Tube has a bunch of them for viewing.
The Story Line:
Victoria Barkley heads her adult brood on the Barkley Ranch in California's San Joaquin Valley, near Stockton, in the 1870s. Heath is the illegitimate son of Victoria's husband, Tom (who is dead at the time of the series). Bank robbers, horse thieves, revolutionaries, and land grabbers keep the Barkleys hopping.
Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions who gave us other westerns such as the forgettable Dick Powell’s Zane Gray Theater and Stagecoach West and the unforgettable Rifleman produced it. Yea I know TMI.
So this location looks out over a valley. Well, this is the best valley that Carrollton and The Colony can provide. If you squint real hard it may look like the San Joaquin Valley circa 1870s NOT! I pass by this spot every morning on my way to work and it does look beautiful at sunrise and on rare occasions when a nice ground fog hangs over the little lake. Austin Ranch and the Arbor Creek Nature Preserve bound it on the east side. The newly added big mound of land is from the dirt excavated from Austin Ranch in late 2011 for their new addition of apartments.
Oh yes. Another fact the little lake you see directly to the south has a name per Google maps Schiff Lake.
So enjoy the spot and look real fast before the building in the future on the spot obscures the view forever. Darn that urban sprawl. ?