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10/24/12 Not in San Diego (part 2): Yosemite! The Upper Yosemite Fall Trail

The clouds are threatening rain and there is a cold nip in the air as I cross the filthy but historic (or historically [...]

November 6, 2012July 31, 2020tamiald 1

“Well, I’ve got a hike for you!” Did the ranger really say that or did I just imagine it? Whatever she said, the [...]

I’ve been traveling from dawn to dusk. Dusk on the road is a magical time of burning skies and strengthening shadows. There is [...]

The suburbs make me uneasy. They aren’t lively and diverse enough to be a city and aren’t wild enough to be nature. I [...]

As I stepped through the dry crisp grass, grasshoppers manically scattered to the left and right of the path like parting waves of [...]

September 6, 2012July 31, 2020tamiald 1

(August 19) Summer’s last sigh manifested itself in a scalding heat wave. Our plans to flee last week to Palomar were foiled by [...]

A few minutes down the trail, we came upon a huge patch of wild roses. Most of the flowers were gone, but the [...]

The sumac family (Anacardiaceae) is a bit more diverse than the parsley family. Plants in this family can have trifoliate or pinnate leaves, [...]

August 12, 2012July 5, 2020tamiald 1

All the elderberries were gone. I thought they had at least a few more weeks before they were ripe. Maybe time had passed [...]

There was no breeze, but the lavender flowers swayed to the warm hum of a halo of bees. As each industrious insect landed [...]