Los Altos Redwood Grove

Here are pics and three short videos from Sunday's visit to the Los Altos Redwood Grove.

A couple of views of Adobe Creek.


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Baylands: Land, Sea, Sky

Here are some pics from Monday's visit to Baylands Nature Preserve to enjoy an autumn panoply of land, sea and sky.


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Stevens Creek: In Search Of Water

Here are pics from Monday's visit to Stevens Creek County Park, where Stevens Creek itself was dry and the reservoir was at only 21% capacity.  Yes, our drought is on-going.  No, we didn't find water.

The dry creek bed.


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Matadero Creek

Here are some pics from Monday's visit to Matadero Creek, sitting quietly next to the creek to watch the birds and clouds and not think about anything in particular for a while.

A view from the trail of the dry part of the marsh (part of the flood control basin) opposite the creek.


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Thornewood Preserve

Here are some pics from a visit to Thornewood Open Space Preserve on Monday.

The trail goes through a mostly wooded habitat.


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Alviso: Yellows

Here are Monday's pics from Alviso, where the interesting trail we wanted to go on turned out to be closed for a couple of years for the salt pond restoration project, so we went in the less-interesting direction instead, and saw a lot of yellow things ( Read more... )

Dead Milk Thistle


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Russian Ridge

Here are some pics from a visit to Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve on Monday.

Views from the trail.


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Overfelt Gardens

Here are some pics from a rather underwhelming visit to Overfelt Gardens on Monday.

Late summer means grasses are brown and tinder-dry.


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Russian Ridge

Here are some pics from a visit to Russian Ridge on Monday.

The Bay Area Ridge Trail goes through the preserve.


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