One of at least three sea otters I saw during a few minutes walking along the shoreline of Monterey Bay.
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Calypte (Hummingbird)
“What the…They said they were going to wait for me!”
“C’mon, I’m trying to be serious here!”
“C’mon, I’m trying to be serious here!”
Probably #Steinbeck would have said it a bit more elegantly, but I’m sure he would have thought it.
In #Monterey at #CanneryRow.
A flock of birds over sailboats on Monterey Bay. It was raining for most of …
A flock of birds over sailboats on Monterey Bay. It was raining for most of the road trip, but Friday had some nice sunny weather in between storms, and I got to walk along the shore for a bit.
#MontereyBay #California #Birds #Sailboats #ocean #photo
The gloves looked like they might be fluorescent. This confirmed it.
Spotted while walking down the street.
Moth (caterpillar)
evening primroses, sundrops, and beeblossoms
White-lined Sphinx (caterpillar)
Angry Geese -> Twitter Banner
Alc mention, bears, probably not what you think.
Duolingo, teaching you the important phrases.
(I do remember a story a while back about a bear somewhere in the Pacific Northwest that broke into a campsite cooler, drank a bunch of beer and passed out. The best part is it apparently preferred the craft beer.)
A gloomy sunset over the OilField.
A #gloomy #sunset over the #OilField.
Kenneth Hahn Park features a patch of semi-wilderness in the middle of suburban #LosAngeles that’s great for hiking…and is also right next to the Inglewood Oil Field.
Wait, *is* that a trail?
Wait, *is* that a trail? There are a lot of branching trails in #HahnPark, and I took one that was steeper than the others because I wanted to make sure I had as much time as possible on top of the ridge before sunset. But after a while I started to wonder. By the time I got here, footing was tricky, and there was one point where I needed to use a hand to brace myself.
It wasn't a problem going uphill in daylight, but when I came back down after sunset, I made sure to take the shallower switchback trails instead!
#hiking #trail #steep #nature #hillside #California #LosAngeles
Hahn Park features picnic areas, camping areas, playgrounds, a semi-wild area with hiking trails, and a Japanese-themed garden with koi pond and bridges.
In the shade of the peppertree.
TURN BACK!
One of the (many) weird things about Los Angeles is that there are fragments of wilderness …
One of the (many) weird things about #LosAngeles is that there are fragments of wilderness scattered throughout the suburbs. (Mostly where it was a pain to build, or someone owned a lot of land & decided to donate it.)
I had two photos of this #trail junction and #fence. I liked the colors in one, the composition in the other, and I just couldn’t get the balance right on the second. On a whim I desaturated it. Turns out it looks better in #blackandwhite anyway!
#nature #hiking #photo
Flowering Jade. In November.
Flowering #Jade. In November.
It was a pretty big one, too, probably 3-4 feet tall and maybe 7-8 feet across. Definitely bigger than you usually see it as a houseplant
Usually.
I’ve seen some pretty big jade plants in gardens, too!
Tree Squirrels
I heard a child shout, “Squirrel!” off somewhere behind me, and then this squirrel came running across the lawn and then up a tree.