Saturday, August 31, 2013

August Favorites

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I used to run out on short excursions to Mt. Tamalpais, and I always brought back a lot of flowers--as many as I could carry--and it was most touching to see the quick natural enthusiasm in the hearts of the ragged, neglected, defrauded, dirty little wretches of the Tar Flat waterfront of the city I used to pass through on my way home.... It was a hopeful sign, and made me say: "No matter into what depths of degradation humanity may sink, I will never despair while the lowest love the pure and the beautiful and know it when they see it."
--John Muir, quoted in Tamalpais Walking 
by Tom Killion and Gary Snyder



Coulter Pine Toes



Buck at Meadow's Edge



Jack-in-the-Grass



Paper Wasps



Forest Litter



Flame Skimmer



Bolinas Ridge #1



Bolinas Ridge #2



Potrero Meadow



Pennyroyal



Ladybug & Milkweed



Milkweed & Mylitta Crescent



Datura Fruit



Redwoods on Helen Markt Trail



Mud Dauber



Quail Run



Fir in the Fog



Cat Stretch



Fog Drip Puddles




Helleborine Orchid



Coyote on Edge of World


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Bolinas Ridge #3