bc8 -- Walk up the ridge
Nice weather this afternoon. Took the dog for a walk up the ridge. Our neighbors to the north have 5 acres, and their house is at the far end of it. Most of that land, as well as the land behind us, is a chapparral ecosystem: mostly low bushes like manzanita, chamise, and the occasional Coast Live Oak as well as a few Ponderosa Pines. About 100 yards of gradual climb gets me to the ridge, then the trail along the ridge affords some fine views of the pine- and redwood-covered hillsides.
The ground, though, is sand. Beach sand.
I've lived here for almost 20 years now; I never get tired of
walking right out the back of the back yard onto the unpopulated open space land that extends in that direction for miles and miles ...
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