Random Views

Here are just a few sights to please the eye or stimulate the mind.

the nearly full moon rises above our house

Brenda looks westward from the Bardee's Bar "trail-head".

looking eastward from the top of our hike

the road down is really for the crews to access the power towers

this hillside lured me over with its strange texture, but I discovered it's an ant wall.  I became quickly covered with piss-ants, which when you slap them, smell TERRIBLE, so I stinked/stank/stunk for the rest of the adventure.

this wild lilac should not yet be a'blooming

the Feather River

my photo only partially caught the vibrant red of this dirt bank

strange clouds

zoom-view of clouds

here comes the rain!  time to turn around.  we only got scattered showered-on, luckily.

Hound's tongue, Brenda says.  We also saw our first Indian Paintbrush in bloom, far too early.

M.Evan's almond tree began to bloom out yesterday.

my right hand; the good one

my poor "deformed" left hand; bruised from a feet-out-from-under-me fall on our hike.  Funny thing is, this injury actually seems to have helped my tightening tendons, like I have the ability to open my palm up wider.  Sara!  Maybe we do need to hit our hands with a heavy book, after all.