A day in LA

Our little family adventure, we hiked some trails, ate some yummy food and learned about space.

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Anniversary Hike!

We woke up early and headed out to the Indian Canyons, on the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation to get our hike on. The park is beautiful, very well maintained. It cost to enter the park, money well spent.  Here's our photos of our hike!

We choose West Fork West- Keep to the right at the fork.

The Palm Grove, amazing!

The lizards had blue tails!

The snow capped peaks seems far away from here.

Beautiful rock formations, a little like Joshua Tree.

Getting closer to the snow.

Wow, we really climbed high.  The valley is to the left.

Me on the long trail up!

We thought this rock looked like an old man, with a grumpy face.

Our destination, the creek!  The husband went in, I chilled my feet.

Gorgeous!  I love hiking and feel so at home out in nature. The smells and  the sounds are like an old friend I miss terribly.

Spring was blooming around every turn!

Where's Mark?

14 years married and counting!

Happy Trails!!!!

A hike to the wetlands with friends

I'm working on taking better photos. Here are a few shots from a hike last weekend with the neighborhood peeps.

Stunning views

a close up

an egret is on the bottom of this one

I couldn't believe how close this bird let us get to it. It was the same size as the kiddies on our hike.

Only a few things were blooming on this winter morning, and I'm so excited I figured out how to use the macro setting for close ups.

A hiking we will go, a snake we will see

Saturday, I hiked the trails with my friends. Look what we found hanging out. Mr. Baby Rattlesnake. Thank goodness a nice man came along and made a new path for us to take, cause we were a bit frightened by this little guy.

Hello New Year!

Wow, I'm pretty darn impressed with myself in 2010. So far, I've had no beef, pork or wine. I haven't spend hardly any money. I also put in 15 miles last week, running, jogging, and hiking. The hiking part is really exciting. This year we are making a point of going out without the kids for some real hiking. Here's a few shots I took of our hike. At the very end, we spied to deer munching on grass. So cool!

winter hikes

A crisp afternoon hike found lots of beauty.

1. snow
2. kisses under the mistletoe a huge hawdelicate trees
3. a huge hawk
4. delicate trees

Yosemite 2009

Last Sunday, we made the trek to Yosemite National Park for a wonderful week of camping. The 7 hour drive to the park had it's moments, but nothing is better then the Valley in Yosemite. Our trip was just perfect. Nice weather for the most part, we did run into a little thunder, lightening and hail. But hey, we never get hail were we live, so it was like a ride at Disneyland. Our week was filled with so much natural beauty. We traveled the valley on our bikes everyday. Visiting Mirror Lake, Yosemite Falls, many beaches and meadows along the way. The kids loved to hike and climb on all the boulders. We saw a bear, lots of deer, a raccoon, a lizard or two, woodpeckers, horses, tons of butterflies, ravens, hawks, Stellar Jays, squirrels, worms, beetles, large ants and small and dogs. The water was flowing in all the rivers, creeks and streams. The week was completely stress free, the kids were so well behaved. I even started and finished reading Twilight. If perfection is attainable, we experienced it last week!!!