The road to Figueroa Mountain, including views of Grass Mountain…
Friday, April 1st, 2016The road to Figueroa Mountain, including views of Grass Mountain covered with poppies.
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I was trying to photograph Grass Mountain covered in poppies,…
Friday, April 1st, 2016I was trying to photograph Grass Mountain covered in poppies, but Rory had other ideas. Mostly involving my sandwich.
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Trees at Figueroa Mountain Last Sunday we took a drive into the…
Thursday, May 1st, 2014Trees at Figueroa Mountain
Last Sunday we took a drive into the Santa Barbara backcountry. We were officially looking for flowers, and there were plenty of those, if not the riotous profusion we saw in 2009. But I had fun taking pictures of trees. I didn’t bother with identifying them to species, but the photos show:
- A beautiful oak in a meadow on the southwest side of the mountain.
- A couple of shots of a standing dead pine that has been turned into a granary (acorn-ary?) by Acorn Woodpeckers. The tree also has some interesting fungus growing in it, with fruiting bodies protruding from the bark.
- The view looking west from near the top of the mountain. The Guadalupe Dunes with the Pacific Ocean beyond were out there in the distance, I think.
- A really big pine cone full of resin. I assumed it was on a Jeffrey Pine, but researching now I wonder if it could have been a Coulter Pine, which have bigger cones.
- Another view, looking up into the crown of the same dead pine that had the Acorn Woodpecker holes and fungus.
- Another view from near the top of the mountain, this time looking south.
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