Month: August 2010

Monte Bello Day II

I remembered I had seen that pose before… 4 years ago for the first time

It was so warm and dry, we had slept without the rainfly

Hiking Out






Camping on Black Mountain Monte Bello Open Space

Ana and Sophia are Leilani’s new friends

Clarkia Anemona – “Farewell to Spring” is one of my favorite flowers. Even more of them on this post













Alder Camp – Second Day


Leilani and Ana playing in the tent

Beautiful foxglove growing at our campsite. I was actually impressed with the number of really toxic herbs growing there – poison hemlock, digitalis, 2 kinds of nightshade and a few others less deadly ones

Hiking was slow, breaks were many, but everyone had lots of fun




Andy calls them Lyfs


Blackberries on the way out


Looking back

Alder Creek – First Day 7/17

Well maybe I was not current. Current except for the forgotten blogposts. Anyway… I found these…

In July we went backpacking in Alder Camp, off Waddell beach, part of the Big Bassin State Park Leilani played at the trailhead while we got ready


This butterfly – one of many seen at the stream crossing – is called a Mourning Cloak


Just when we had put up our tent 2 families with hirls Leilani’s age showed up. Instantly they started playing together

Everybody had brought a book, so there were a lot of goodnight stories

Wicked – The Musical

I finally took Leilani to see Wicked. And Sophia came along. We took BART to avoid parking nightmares and because kids love public transportation

Later we went to a playground nearby