Nature Photography – Lynda Anne Consulting

A Walk To Clement Street

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We’re going up to Clement Street, do you want to come? We’ll come back through Mountain Lake Park. The early bloomers are already showing up on the trees. Let’s go see what we find.

Here are a few pictures of our walk. Click on the gallery to see the full sized images.

Some trees are waking up already
The Jade is blooming
Uh-Oh Mayhem!
Someone abandoned their art
A new store; check it out!
And an old favorite.
The most knowledgeable lady works at that hardware store
I used to make confetti out of these. I’d pretend it was New Year’s Eve.
Hello Blue Jay!
The new playground is complete
Some trees are blooming already.

See all the images from our walk to Clement Street here. Thanks for looking!

Pelicans At Municipal Pier Aquatic Park

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Do you need a staycation like yesterday? Here’s my favorite getaway in a day: Municipal Pier. The fishing is free of charge and requires no fishing license. The views are amazing, and the wildlife always shows up. You can pretty much guarantee to see seals, seagulls, ducks, crabs getting hauled up, fish on the lines, and my personal favorite: pelicans!

Here are a few shots from my Pelican Collection

See my Entire Pelican Collection Taken From Municipal Pier Here

Bring your favorite sketchbook, a camera, lunch, a fishing pole, warm clothes, and a chair. Seriously. Don’t forget a hat and a jacket, even on a sunny day, because the wind blows and it is always chilly out on that pier! But it’s so worth it. As you head out onto the pier you will feel the city fade away. Within minutes you are in a marine wonderland. Stay as long as you’d like. =)

Broken Dreams And What It Takes To Survive In The Mojave Desert

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My last camping adventure before returning to San Francisco for the summer took me to the Mojave Desert in June 2018. Temperatures reached about 105 degrees. I spent the days exploring in my car so I could run the ac and cool off a bit between stops.

As you can see by my campsite, shade is non existent.

I explored during the heat of the day to run my ac. My car is a real trooper.

The camp site

No shade for miles and miles

And miles and miles

The fire pit

This tent lied about its size. I had to sleep diagonally!

Sleeping diagonally wasn’t comfy so I opened the cot and sleep with my feet out the second night

View from my tent

Deserts sunsets are the best

While exploring I came upon more than a few sad and abandoned dreams in one form or another.

This one if particularly pathetic.

Which left me wondering how does one survive in the Mojave Desert? Of course, nature has done a much better job.

There was quite a variety of droppings and scat in the camp site and surrounding area.

Scat

And more scat

This home looks abandoned as well

It seems the things that survive in the Mojave are not terribly big

This survivor is no taller than my shoulders and is covered in tiny q-tip sized balls of fluff.

Before the fluff balls this esert was covered in tiny yellow flowers. Now only a few remain.

This little cactus is growing strong.

But it sure is tiny.

Here’s another tiny survivor.

One of the last hold outs of spring

Sometimes small is big.

But humans aren’t inclined to give up. And even though small things seems to thrive in California’s Mojave Desert, big things seem to be sprouting about 5 miles from the camp site.

What is it? It’s a half mile of black gold being trucked in

Those piles are as big as the 18 wheelers that hauled the dirt in.

Beautiful, rich soil.

What do you think they are planning to grow? Bigger question is where do you think the water will come from? Is this another broken dream in the making, or is Mojave Desert heading for big changes? Time will tell.