#SteepRavine sunset over the State Park redwood cabins on Mt Tamalpais; ocean, clouds and sun sinking into the Pacific… goodnight everyone #MillValley
#WildFlowers #EarlyBloomers An old friend from the Pacific Northwest blooming all over the place on Mt Tam right now-Trillium! Steep Ravine trail, Mt Tamalpais #MillValley
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#SteepRavine – No electricity in these State Park cabins- wood stove, rain pelting the windows… A big storm blowing in from the Pacific Ocean tonight. Wind and rain, I’m thinking about the Redwoods swaying up on the mountain while I’m playing cards- very cozy in here.
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#SteepRavineCabins my wife took the car and most of our food was in the car… All I have here is bacon, bread, good coffee, the NY times and a quiet, kid-free cabin by the ocean. Somehow, someway, I think I’m going to make it- I will survive.
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View from my cabin window this morning, cozy redwood cabin by the ocean… the only thing on my schedule today is a nice, long hike up the steep ravine trail
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Ladies and Gents, here it is, the first wildflower of the season on Mt Tamalpais- beautiful red Indian Warrior. Feb 3? Wow, that’s early…
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Shhhh! Don’t tell the county people, but I’m busy cutting a new trail today through redwoods and chaparral on public land near my home. It’s actually an old trail that was in heavy use 100 years ago- I looked it up on the old maps. But now it’s completely overgrown and forgotten, and bit by bit I’m getting it back in shape. It’s so thick in here that sometimes I only go 20 or 30 feet in an hour. This is how I’m spending my day off? What’s wrong with me?
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“I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me…. And when the time comes to die I’ll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.” — Everett Ruess
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Planting fruit trees
Planting fruit trees all day today during a break between winter storms – espaliered cherry, plum, peach, fig… two years until they make fruit
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Rain on the mountain
Finally, after a couple of months of dry weather, the good soaking we needed – rain on Mt Tamalpais! Wildflowers and yummy mountain mushrooms are waking up, I can smell it in the air- the mountain is alive again #MillValley
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