Looking north on West Ridgecrest Road, part of Mt. Tamalpais State Park. The road runs north and south for three miles on top the spectacular coastal ridgeline. On a clear day one can even see the snow-capped Sierra Mountains sixty miles to the north. Immediately to the west, the grand Pacific Ocean with the Farallone Islands 28 miles out to sea, and at the bottom of the mountains that the road runs atop, Stinson Beach, Point Reyes, Bolinas, and Richardson Bay. When Dave and I visited the area a week ago, the rolling California hills were a riot of many different wild flowers.  The tall grass was top heavy with seed, and all the redwood trees had 2 inches of new growth at the ends of all the branches. The air was thick with the intoxicating smell of these new fingers of bright green growth. At the base of all the old redwood trees, curled juvenile fiddlehead ferns were popping out for the first time. At one point near sunset we crossed paths with a small herd of deer. In the herd there were three bucks with their velvety antlers and four little babies with their backs covered in white spots.   

May 10, 2009

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