20 February 2010
Rani visited over the weekend. She and Ingrid shopped at the "White Elephant" sale in the morning while I got caught up on some editorial work for "Indoor Air." Then, in the afternoon, we headed out for a 6 mile hike around Diablo Foothills regional park, which has become one of my favorite places in the East Bay.
What do I like about it? The landscape is spectacular, with gently rolling hills mostly covered by grasses but also with a strong presence of mature trees, mainly stately oaks and horse chestnuts.
The trails meander through the valleys and over the hills so that the views are continuously varying. There are myriad ground squirrels running about and we saw several turkey vultures on this visit too. Mount Diablo rises a short distance to the southeast, although today it was too cloudy to see the summit. And because of the moderately high level of rain this winter, distributed over a few month period, the grasses are lush and beautifully green.
The "teeth" are a ridge of sedimentary rocks that have become tilted vertically and extend for several hundred meters from hill through saddle and to opposite hill. They appear in every photo in this post. Can you see them?
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