I’ve posted before about finding painted rocks around my neighborhood and how I learned about Orangevale Rocks, which led me to the Kindness Rocks Project. Just the other day I happened to notice a beautifully painted rock in a new spot, and when I turned it over I found the hashtag “WCPR.” A quick Google led me to the West […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of May 9, 2018. Where do you belong? In the hustle and bustle of a big city or amongst friendly faces in a small town? For this week’s challenge, show us your place in the world. I don’t live in a big city, although sometimes traffic jams and noisy neighbors can […]
The barriers are still sitting across the bike trail; we continue to wait for the rock slides and resulting damage from January 2017 to be repaired. And while those giant concrete blocks don’t seem to be doing much to keep out cyclists and pedestrians, on the plus side they’ve made a great spot for random graffiti.
One of my favorite WordPress travel and nature blogs is Enchanted Forests, written by Mukul Chand; and ever since I first read his post titled Auspicious Marigolds, I can’t help thinking of this song whenever I happen to see one of these beautiful little golden flowers, known as in Hindi as Genda.
Most of the trees on Mississippi Bar are oaks, cottonwoods, or pine trees. But there’s at least one palm tree sitting on the bank of one of the ponds. I can’t tell how long it’s been there or how it came to be there in the first place, but I always like to check on it whenever I’m hiking nearby. […]