Mt. Diablo Grand Loop, May 1 with the SF Hiking Club
Top of Burma Road:
Descending to Deer Flat, Blue Dicks and Narrow-leaved Golden Bush:
Views from Eagle Peak:
Bald Ridge, with Gilia tricolor and poppies:
Prospectors Gap, Silver Lupine and Narrow-leaved Golden Bush:
North Peak Trail:
Edgewood County Park, May 2
Dwarf Brodiaea:
Tidy Tips:
Tidy Tips, Goldfields, and Purple Owls Clover:
Tidy Tips:
Pair of deer hiding in the shadows:
Marin Headlands / Point Bonita, May 7 with
Cow Parsnips by Wolf Ridge Trail:
Lupines:
Looking south to Rodeo Beach:
Looking toward Point Reyes:
View south from a small bluff above Rodeo Beach:
Climbing away from Rodeo Beach:
Nathan and Robert with Rodeo Lagoon in the background:
At Point Bonita Lighthouse: Cabbage, Ice Plant and a Gull:
Mt. Hamilton, May 8 with CNPS
Fairy Fans (Clarkia breweri) and Blazing Stars (Mentzelia lindleyi) near mile 8 on route 130 east of Mt. Hamilton:
San Antionio Valley: a herd of elk amid goldfields and Purple Owls Clover:
White Tidy Tips (Layia glandulosa, which is yellow here), Purple Owls Clover and Goldenbush (Ericameria linearifolia):
Murietta Falls, May 12
Rocky Ridge, looking toward Mt. Diablo, many crows(?):
first patch of goldfields:
view north and northeast from Schlieper Rock:
The goldfields get better as I approach the main ridge:
Johnny's Pond:
Scattered Lupines near streams just above the falls:
Murietta Falls:
Poppies and Blazing Stars (Mentzelia lindleyi) to the left of the falls:
Pond on Greenside trail:
pond at Shafer Flat, buttercups nearby, goldfields in distance:
Another pond at Shafer Flat, larkspur and butter-and-eggs in front:
more flower-filled meadows:
Some Birds-eye Gilia (Gilia tricolor) mixed with the goldfields, central valley in distance:
Johnny's Pond again:
Mt. Manuel (near Pfeiffer Beach Park) May 14 with Rainbow Rec
A lone Yucca and some morning glories:
Vista point near the top:
Mountains to the east:
Some Tree Poppies (Dendromecon rigida) along the ridge:
Lupines:
Mt. Diablo Oyster Ridge May 15 with the SF Hiking Club
Looking south along the west branch of Alamo Creek:
Mt. Diablo from Black Hawk Ridge:
looking west:
looking east:
Calero Park, May 19
Bald Peaks Trail:
Iris at Cottle Rest Site:
Henry Coe State Park, May 21 with SBQA and the sc-hikers
Some Large Flowered Linanthus (linanthus grandiflorus) near the start:
Frog Lake:
A patch of Blue-eyed grass (sisyrynchium bellum) with one white flowered plant:
A hillside of Chinese Houses on the Fish Trail:
The same patch of Large Flowered Linanthus (linanthus grandiflorus) as we return:
San Pedro Mountain to Montara Beach, May 22 with CNPS
Looking north from San Pedro Valley Rd to Pacifica and Mt. Tamalpais:
The Devil's Slide area from the trail down to Montara Beach:
Stony Creek Falls, May 27
Snow Mountain - Dixie Glade to Bathhouse trail, May 28 with the SF Hiking Club
A hillside of Red Ribbons (Clarkia concinna) on the drive back:
Bidwell Park, May 29 with the SF Hiking Club
A patch of Mariposa Lillies of somewhat varied colors:
Larkspur and Ithuriel's Spears:
Big Chico Creek:
