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The Barred Owl is back!

The Barred Owl is back!

While eating breakfast this morning, looking out onto the meadow and watching birds and squirrels on the feeder, I noticed that suddenly everyone left. The feeder was empty of wildlife, a sure sign a hawk or other large bird was nearby. Sure enough, I looked up into the bigleaf maple and there it was, a […]

Gentle Giants

Gentle Giants

Our quest to find a little Scamp trailer took us to Tampa Bay this week and we weren’t disappointed. The trailer is just what we’re looking for and the owners, Cher and Frank are delightful people. Knowing we had just a few hours to spend in the area that day they suggested a few places […]

Winter Trip South

Winter Trip South

Snow Geese – Sacramento Wildlife Refuge

This is a repost of our trip to Southern California to visit family and friends over the holidays. I guess the previous post has been forever lost in cyberspace, or accidentally deleted? I admit it could be ‘operator error.’

We’d planned on at least three weeks for the road trip and our timing was perfect. The weather was ideal both in San Diego and Anza Borrego. Even our quick stop at the Sacramento Wildlife Refuge was warm and sunny.

Once in San Diego we took several side trips to Anza Borrego State Park for a little camping and hiking, our way to relax and rejuvenate from the fast pace of the city. Anza Borrego is California’s largest state park encompassing more than 600,000 acres and home to 50 or more species of flora and fauna including the parks namesake the Bighorn Sheep (Borrego is Spanish for sheep).

Balboa Park at Dusk

Photos taken at Anza Borrego State Park

All Eyes

All Eyes

Close-up of peacock tail. Photo taken at Maryhill Museum, Columbia Gorge area, Washington We stopped here for a few hours to poke around in the wonderful old art museum overlooking the Columbia. While the museum was good, the peacocks were much better.