Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Waiting for Rain

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What sounded like rain in the woods was just the pitter-patter of fog 
dripping from the canopy onto a carpet of dry leaves.



Sometimes a Douglas fir's rat tails show loud and proud. 
Sticky patches of sap pool among the cone's scales.



Hardly a drop of water in this little arroyo seco off the Benstein Trail.



Spotted this crime scene at my feet as I knelt 
to explore a small pool of water in the ravine.



A California Giant Salamander, here a juvenile sporting about three inches 
of length, chills in the bottom of a pool.



An excited mob of acorn woodpeckers and steller's jays called out 
from the vicinity of this coast live oak bristling with nuts, 
stopping only when a cooper's hawk swooped in.



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