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nwoods

Expedition Leader
Came across this magnificent unbridled Palomino horse out in the Mojave Desert last weekend

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AbleGuy

Officious Intermeddler
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⬆️ these two brought to mind close up pictures of the surface of newly discovered planets, taken from a telescope satellite traveling through the cold darkness of outer space at far the edge of some distant galaxy.


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These two shots are a few steps away to better show the actual tree…
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AbleGuy

Officious Intermeddler
There is such an amazing wealth of simple beauty to be discovered in our natural world, but sadly we too often miss noting it while sealed in our vehicles driving by at 60 mph.

Here, at pee stop at a small grove lining the roadside pullout, we stumbled upon this treasure but didn’t know what we’d found until we got super up close and personal to these magnificent trees. Only then were we able to really discover the incredibly array of rich colors hiding in and beneath their dry brittle bark.



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Todd n Natalie

OverCamper
There is such an amazing wealth of simple beauty to be discovered in our natural world, but sadly we too often miss noting it while sealed in our vehicles driving by at 60 mph.

Here, at pee stop at a small grove lining the roadside pullout, we stumbled upon this treasure but didn’t know what we’d found until we got super up close and personal to these magnificent trees. Only then were we able to really discover the incredibly array of rich colors hiding in and beneath their dry brittle bark.



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Crazy, they almost look like arial shots of land to me.
 

AbleGuy

Officious Intermeddler
We took a hike along the water the other day down to the small inlet where Peter Puget sought emergency shelter from a violent storm and landed with his crew of waterlogged sailors when they were exploring and mapping this area in a couple of open row boats, after having left the main ship of Captain Vancouver’s expedition in 1792.

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The East End of this trail went along is swampy area, and we had to negotiate quite a bit of mud along the way.

In a couple places though, the county parks department trail crew helpfully added some wooden stepping stones to help hikers get through the worst of the slippery mess.

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AbleGuy

Officious Intermeddler
View from our new backyard.

It was 39° when I crawled out of the new tiny pro master city camper van we replaced our Tiger with. We’ve been surprisingly cozy and warm in that less than fully insulated, little rig in this cold, wet weather.

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AbleGuy

Officious Intermeddler
Once again, interesting treasures of nature spotted at our feet…

We almost tromped on these tiny fragile fungi during our hike in the pine forest today.

These @ 2” in diameter mushrooms are, I believe, mature deadly Panther Caps, subsection Pantherinae of Amanita. They brown with age and have white growths on them that make them look like small beach rocks with barnacles.
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