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I allow myself to be sentimental about foliage and snow after listening to Californians complain about cold weather for four years in school.
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Alum Rock Park. Seeing the hills before they turn all brown and fire-prone in the summer. You can kind of see the valley; I hear there’s silicon down there.
Took a walk around the Bay Trail today, starting at Shoreline and going into the Palo Alto Baylands. Lots of birds: flocks of huge white birds, smaller ones that walk around on long spindly legs and poke their bills into the water, ducks and geese, tiny brown birds in the brush, even some kind of hawk-like thing.
Three things I like about this place: (1) watching birds, especially when they take off in a flock; (2) being close to the water and the big round sky; (3) hearing nature sounds.
(Only had a cell phone camera so not the most high-qual photos in the world.)
I’ve recently taken up geocaching. One of today’s searches took us to a bizarre preserve with this land before time swamp thing. It had black tube pipes and some metal cages sticking out of the water. To get here we had to walk on a narrow ridge that didn’t seem like a legitimate path at first. We didn’t actually have to go very far into the woods, but after a couple of easy finds on relatively tame and well-maintained trails, this place (minutes away from uber-suburbia!) made me nervous.
Heimo’s Arctic Refuge: Heimo Korth and his wife Edna live year-round in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is a five-part documentary-type thing about their lives and it is interesting. (via boingboing)
