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New hiking review on my website!
Madrona Marsh Preserve
★★★★★
One of my favorite places to walk in the South Bay: the last remnant of seasonal marshes that once covered the western part of the LA basin.
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/places/madrona-marsh/
#nature #hiking #woods #southBay #torrance #wetlands #losAngelesBasin #review
OK, that’s a better shot of the #butterfly. Most likely a #paintedLady.
Ducklings! In one of the cleaner ponds at the marsh preserve.
This year’s #wildflowers are seriously impressive
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wildflower-superbloom-photos-california
Just some #mosstodon from a recent hike in the Palos Verdes Peninsula hills near Los Angeles. There’s a nature preserve along one of the canyons with a stream running through it that actually has water after this winter’s repeated storms, unlike when I went there last summer (or was it fall?) And it was completely dry.
Possibly a Say’s Phoebe. I had such a hard time getting the camera to focus on the bird and not all the branches around it!
A winter visit to #MadronaMarsh preserve, after some rain finally filled the low-lying areas of the seasonal #wetlands.
#photo #photos #nature #winter #trees #marsh #wigeons #ducks
Also on Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/albums/72177720305100984
And this is a piece I like to call “Damn you, Autofocus! Damn you to Hell!”
I went on a hike today, up in the coastal hills near Los Angeles. I took a trail along a (dry) streambed up through a canyon, which is variously known as George F. Canyon or Georgeff Canyon. No one knows who George (or Georgeff) was – they just found it on an old map when they dedicated the nature preserve.
There was SO. MUCH. POISON OAK. You really do not want to stray much from the path here!
Their guide to planting #microforests in the LA area is live!
https://www.lamicroforests.com/
If I lived somewhere where I had a big enough yard and could choose how to use it, I would be all over this.
A #MonarchButterfly spotted over the weekend. Not sure what kind of flower it’s hiding behind.
Spot the #lizard!
(Seriously, I couldn’t tell if it was in frame at the time I took the photo.)
#nature https://pixelfed.social/p/KelsonV/495010689822926293
A fox #squirrel spotted running across the lawn at the park.
Oh good, Pixelfed.social is back! And the post I made 5 minutes before it went down actually did go through!
I’m over on #pixelfed as @KelsonV@pixelfed.social where I mostly post suburban #nature photos these days, but occasional other stuff.
And I have an *ahem* @AddHawk account where I, well, add hawks.
The downtime did get me thinking about picking up that minimalist #indieweb gallery project I’ve been thinking about since…um…January
A walk through a seasonal marsh that’s out of season. (We’ll see how much rain we get this winter.) And a virtual hiking buddy.
#nature #hiking #butterflies #flowers #bridge #path #PokemonGo #MadronaMarsh
