Frog Hunting Club

With our new close proximity to the foothills, Jacob and I have been making many frog hunting excursions. We can hear them, but haven't had any luck so far. There are a lot of tadpoles so in a few weeks hopefully frogs will be more abundant.

Roosevelt Park

During our move we took a Sunday off to BBQ at Roosevelt park downtown. Melissa's friend from work and her boyfriend and daughter met up with us. It was a great day.

Jacob, coffin...


Josh Mattson, May day and blunt fakie....

A few sunsets

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Wildflowers Up the Freaking Ying Yang!

"the landscapes of the Santa Clara Valley were fairly drenched with sunshine, all the air was quivering with the songs of meadow-larks, and the hills were so covered with flowers that they seemed to be painted." - John Muir

Coyote

On Saturday I took a ride on the bike trail to Coyote. Coyote is a little town South of San Jose that time forgot. The farms, fields and forgotten orchards act as a wildlife corridor between the Diablo Range and the Santa Cruz Mountains. There were plans to develop it at one point which luckily fell through. The bike trail is pretty underused between South San Jose and Morgan Hill so you can go awhile without seeing another person. At the points when you can't hear or see the freeway and if you block out the electric towers you forget how close you are to the city. I've seen wild pigs, bunnies, a 3 legged fox, bobcats and once about 20 years ago I think I saw a mountain lion.































Totem pole....








The Coyote Stage Stop is a biker bar on Monterey Highway. There's not so many of these type of honky tonks around this region any more. I like the classic old sign.
















From Coyote is rode to Hellyer park in San Jose. I was there last weekend with Jacob and we saw a crap load of turtles sunning themselves on the rocks right on the shore of the little goose poop filled lake. However, this weekend was about 10 degrees cooler so I only caught a quick glimpse of one before he ducked back into he water.....




On the way back I saw this kid Aaron adn his friends skating the Stratacom ditch...






The sun was going down and the temperature was dropping as I got closer to home