Lamar Park

Rested.

Get water. Load the bike.

Zip up my fleece.

Let's go!

Glide down the path.

Climb the hill, and run back down.

Laugh and giggle.

Sun slants over the gold and red leaves.

Sky pales and purples.

Dusk settles over Lake Patsy.

Sunset behind us as we leave.

It places a hand of benediction over me and my band of loved ones.

Blessed

With Heart

Thank you Karen and Janie for the pictures you let me use.

Las Trampas Hike in a Bag

As I started up Elderberry Trail at Las Trampas Regional Wilderness on Monday afternoon, the battery on my camera died. I was momentarily bummed until I decided I'd collect a Hike in a Bag to send to my grandson, the preschool naturalist.

I'll ask him, 'Can you find these nature artifacts?'

A yellow leaf with stickery edges, a brown leaf that looks like a flying bunny, 2 insect-yummy bay leaves, see through feathers, lichen sticks, a buckeye, green moss from a tree trunk, a heart rock, acorn with its cap on, and a feathery-ferny leaf.

Then because I always take a picture in my mind of the wonders I see, 

I sketch when I get home. 

5 Senses Hike

I see a family of Black-tailed Deer eating grass and resting on the hill.

Mmm. I smell California Bay Laurel leaves.

'Hoo, hoo, hoo.' I hear Great Horned Owl calling from his tree.

Climbing the trail I am thirsty. Water from my bottle tastes good.

Green moss on the Dark Woods tree trunks feels like your hair when I rub it.

Hiking 

With Heart

Fall Haiku

Yesterday

The grass was raked green.

Last night was longer, colder.

Now bare trees, gold yard.

A Wonder of Nature:

When the days get shorter and the nights colder. scissor cells form in the leaf where the stem meets the branch. These cells keep forming and pushing the leaf away from the stem. Finally a gust of wind or too many raindrops causes the leaf to fall. 

Amazed 

With Heart