Bird pictures! There are always tons of snowy egrets, herons, and other elegant, large birds at the shoreline. The bird shown below is a snowy egret.
Author: Kristen Ankiewicz
Writer, artist, shameless goof
Windy Hill Open Space Preserve!
Windy Hill Open Space Preserve is a beautiful park in Portola Valley next to Skyline Drive, in the SF Bay Area. See my pictures here. There were lurking frogs, lizards, and tons and tons of wildflowers!
I hiked Henry Coe State Park
And I took a ton of photos. You can see them here.
I acquired a TICK on my hip sometime during the trip (probably when I squatted to pee off the trail.) I found it hours later and yanked it out, and it tried to craw away. ICK!
There were lovely amounts of wildlife to see and hear. I heard tons of frogs croaking, I heard a very loud turkey gobblin’, I saw a turkey (not sure if it was the same one), Peter saw 5 turkeys himself, we saw deer, and we saw turkey vultures swooping overhead.
The hike was 4.5 miles round trip for me — 2.9 miles to Frog Lake (along Frog Flat Trail), then 1 mile back along Hobbs road (very steep!), then .6 miles back along Monument trail.
Ladybug
Ladybug photographed with my new macro lens! Spotted at the mountain view shoreline.
Moaning Caverns staircase
Snowy Sierra Nevada!
I went caving up in the mountains last weekend. (Lilburn Cave).
It wasn’t snowing on the hike in, but there was plenty of it on the way out.
I managed to bruise and cut my knee, make a hole in my BRAND NEW pants, and twist my ankle something fierce. Ow!
I twisted my ankle… getting DESSERT on the way home.
Jellyfish are awesome
Kristen Ankiewicz 