Leilani had to draw a self portrait. Unprompted and without help she added the text.
With her friend Narnia
Teacher Liselle
Lots of kids on the carousel
Playing in the fort
Last Sunday, Jan 16th, we went to Carson Falls near Mt. Tam with Kelby and Belen and their parents. The weather was a bit foggy and cold to start, but within 1/2 hour it turned beautiful. The kids were happy, and so were the adults.
I think I reached this waterfall the first time I hiked in the area in 1998, a friend of a friend guiding the hike, but never managed to find it again. I guess because I thought we had actually been on Mt Tam that time. Anyway, now I have Andy, and Andy has a GPS and a great memory for hikes. And if the memory should fail we have documented it on the blog now… just need to enter Mt. Tam waterfall in the search box…
Oops… fingerprint on the lens. But the photo was so happy I posted it anyway.
At the top of the waterfall, you look down on some beautiful pools:
Then you cross the bridge over the stream. The bridge was really artsy, the Marin Water District maintains their trails very well.
At the middle of the falls, there is a nice view:
We had lunch on this beautiful rock, right next to the waterfall.
Then you can hike further down, where the falls go straight down against a rock. But there’s no place to sit and the trees block the view. Looking back up:
On the hike back up:
We stopped to play here, the kids had fun kicking and throwing rocks:
Afterward we went to the Scoop in Fairfax. Really good organic ice cream, some very interesting flavors (vanilla-honey-lavender) and combinations (chocolate and vanilla swirl, called I Have a Dream–for MLK day). And the portions are HUGE. Unfortunately that made me eat too much…
The lines are long, so the girls drew while we waited:
Leilani liked the breakfast fruitplate so much that she had to photograph it.
Still riding Cherokee. I have a lot of footage, I hope to post a movie soon.
Leilani is not the only artsy person in the family – Andy’s art. Is there such a thing as photo-post-impressionist?
After a few weeks of cold and rainy weather the trampoline went down, right before Andy and Leilani used it one last time. Right after the weather turned nice…
Leilani loves cats. She draws them, feeds then, carries them around and writes about them.
Cats are sweet and very lovely. That’s why we pet them. I love cats, and they love us.
Playground in Millbrae
Coloring
In San Bruno Park with Liselle and Einstein
Leilani’s art photo of the week…
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
