Not sure I have a lot to say about these photos except that I took them on a hiking excursion while I am waiting for spring to bring the landscape back to life. The grasses are mostly dormant, but the live oaks still have their leaves.
We haven’t had much real rain this winter, so the creek is mostly dry as it has been since summer. Below is just some trapped water that can’t flow downstream and will eventually dry up unless we get some rain. A spring that feeds this creek is not flowing right now.
Some of the plants don’t mind the drought so much and are still quite happy. I wish I had noticed and removed a couple of stray pieces of grass from this plant before shooting the photo.
I was hoping the horizon would take on a nice orange glow after sunset like it often does on a clear day as I think that it makes for a nice silhouette. But, no glow today. I hope the people in the two airplanes above smiled for me.
So, that’s it, just some photos I liked from a hike with no real theme. Thanks for reading.
Jason Frels 
I like the mystery of the landscapes poised for spring’s touch. Good pictures!
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I like the grass in the yucca. It makes it look more natural. But my favorite photo is the last. I don’t know why, but there’s something about those two trees, with the airplane above, that I really like.
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Thanks. I love a good silhouette. On a particularly cool, clear day, when the atmosphere is right, the horizon takes on the color gradient from orange to deep blue just after sunset and I was hoping for that as my backdrop.
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Keep trying. Maybe one day that magic moment will appear.
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I usually see this when I am just walking in the local park in the evenings, wishing I was somewhere good with a camera. Those oak trees were on my mental silhouette list so I arranged to be there after sunset.
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Hope you enjoyed your hiking excursions this weekend. I liked the Java plant the best and the sun peeking through the trees in the second photo.
Spring is trying to come early here. Supposed to be 72 on Thursday! 😎
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Oh gosh! I meant Yucca plant, not Java. 😶🤚!
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I just assumed that you knew the name of the plant and I didn’t.
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And I had to go ruin it! I don’t know near as many plants and flowers as my mom, but I do believe I am right about that plant being a yucca one. Tippy called it that too, so I must be right.
I had coffee on my mind before which explains the “Java” typo ☺
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I guess you figured that it doesn’t make any difference what a plant is called after you have killed it.
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Smartass … though you may be right! 😛
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I felt a little bad about making that comment but it was so funny that I had to.
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Like I said before, Smartass! LOL!
But thats OK, I get those brilliant “just have to say it” lines too…
Thinking one will come before too long. 😉
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I’m an easy target.
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Amazing photography!
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I really like that first photo of the Oak tree’s low-hanging branches and the sun spot. I never get out hiking anymore (uncooperative knees), and your photos of trails and the outdoors are a real treat.
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Thanks. Sorry you can’t get out hiking. I hope you can still knit.
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Yes, I knit and read constantly, but there’s nothing like an early morning solo hike. I did that for years, plus evening hikes after work in the Santa Monica mountains. Nothing like it.
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That makes me want to start getting up early and going out to the refuge to hike.
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It’s such a nice time of day around sunrise when the birds are just waking up.
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At least the landscape is still not white. Ahhhhh, spring, waiting, still waiting……
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