Just before New Year's, I started choosing our afternoon dogwalk spot for its variety of scene—because we have so many beautiful landscapes within a 15-minute drive, and I wanted to celebrate that diversity. And I documented our walks. So here, and perhaps extending for several posts (I'll get to 100 yet, ha ha), I'll post the photos that I originally posted on FB. I've had fun looking around.
December 27, Eucalyptus Road in Seaside: a road generally empty of cars because it doesn't go through to anywhere, on an edge of the former Fort Ord—chaparral, a dwarf oak woods. And currently, the water company is laying pipes. At the end of our walk we were treated to the conversations of several great horned owls. I took a video, but videos don't transfer here, sadly. It was a glorious sound. (The final image here is of two owls sitting side by side on a power pole. Mostly, though, they were in separate locations—in oak trees, on power poles—as they conversed.)
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| I love the beat-up heavy machinery |
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| A roadbed abstraction |
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There's plenty of concertina wire, this having been
a working army base for many years |
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| The shrouded pipes awaiting burial |
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| The two owls are at the bottom of the pole |
December 28, Garzas Canyon: a favorite walk along a rushing creek
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| Turkey tail fungus |
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| Garzas Creek |
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| Ormsbee Lookout in the Santa Lucia Preserve |
December 30, Fort Ord: a visit to Comanche, the old army base's last ceremonial war horse. The visit included a stampede of goats, here for the winter to digest some of the abundant vegetation, and I took a video, which I find amusing. You can see it
on FB.
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| A fuzzy screenshot, but I have to have the goats here! |
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| Comanche's grave |
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| We usually extend the walk through the oak woods |
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| The mushrooms have started to pop |
Continued on #86.
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