Hydra and I went for a hike in the afternoon. We went straight up his mountain and then around the whole neighborhood. We find it impossible to pass up the opportunity to perform our own private shadow play.
Remains of a yucca.
I found it interesting that many of the junipers that were in the midst of the fire look almost untouched. When I touched one, though, the needles crumbled between my fingers. There were still-live parts of the trees, but a lot of the branches had been completely dried out.
Apparently the ground squirrels were able to dig down and survive the quickly passing flames, which probably didn't have time to heat the ground too much. This looked freshly dug.
1 comment:
Love the shadow picture.
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