Fishy fishy

Melissa and Jacob went fishing at the perk ponds last weekend. Jacob caught a trout. I cooked and ates it.

More Santa Teresa

While exploring I found a hidden nook with these flowers that I have never seen anywhere else in the hills....




deer...








The cheesegrater ditch is overgrown...

Some redwoods

I was able to stop and snap a few photos while driving up Sanborn Road off Highway 9 in Saratoga

















I should have put something next to this huge butterfly for scale...

Nice Day

Before it started raining buckets Saturday night I had a nice day. I went with Kyle to the Sunnyvale park where it was virtually empty. Then we went o Mikey's house and chucked knives.




That kid Dan was blasting...


Kenny backside 5-0...


Kyle...






Kitty bonus pics!

Funny Glasses

My niece and nephew sent out these funny cardboard glasses to family members to color.

Dottie's Pond

Dottie's pond is located at the Bernal-Gulnac ranch by our new place. Dottie's pond has a long history.
A long ass time ago many of the locals Injuns, the Ohlone, were experiencing a mysterious illness. It was most likely due to them using Cinebar, the ore mercury is extracted from to paint themselves up for ceremonies. A mysterious Lady in Black appeared to them and told the chief to fire an arrow up in the air and where is landed they would find the cure. So the chief shoots the arrow up in the air and it lands on a rock splitting it open. The Ohlone used this spring water to cure themselves.

Centuries later, the Bernal family had their ranch on this same land. The water from the spring flowed into a little pond they used as a swimming hole. Their daughter Dottie was swimming in the pond when a giant hand reached out of the depths and pulled her down which drowned her.

There's a bunch of turtles in there. Them's good eatins...




There was a doll floating in the pond. Was it a sacrifice to appease the angry giant hand? ...

More greenery and scenery

I made an archeological discovery! A flat top Budweiser can. It must have washed down the hill in the rain. Maybe there's more old crap up in them thar hills....






View from the backside of Coyote Peak, aka ol Flat Top...






I saw a family of wild pigs!. Them's good eatin! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY!.....


Silicon Valley green belt...


My mountain bike trail...