On Jan. 11th we went to Henry Cowell Redwoods Park with Lisa.
This was the most interesting mushroom I found, right at the parking lot. I call it a club mushroom, but it’s real name is Clavariadelphus:
We hiked along the Pipeline trail, an old paved road:
Leilani found this stick and first it was her antlers, but became steering wheel, handle bar, a saddle to ride on and many other things during that hike. She carried it most of the way (except when Andy carried Leilani AND the stick)
The California Bay tree is very hardy, often growing two or three twisted trunks from an old stump. In this case, the fallen tree sprouted numerous vertical new trunks:
Under the railroad trestle. I still like Orbs a lot, these were especially pretty
It was cold all day in the forest, but we stayed warm walking 3 miles to the outlook bench. You could see all the way to the Santa Cruz boardwalk. We had our lunch in the sun, but it got cold really soon after and we headed back.
On the way back Andy discovered a log bridge that Leilani could walk across:
We invited ourselves to Lisa’s kitchen and had dinner there, and then watched dogtricks
and trained the kid
and let them play
