Chorro Grande area, near Ojai

We went up to the Chorro Grande area in the mountains in back of Ojai last weekend. We stopped in Meiners Oaks on the way up; Sara visited with her friend Jen and I tooled around town on my bike, noting all of the fruit trees with fruit on them -- grapefruit, oranges, persimmons, pomegranate, etc. Lovely. The next day Sara went for a hike with the spatial group, I puttered around in the hills on the other side of Sespe Creek. Full album is here.

sunrise, cold

water for coffee, stove operated from sleeping bag

the bee

native (?), pretty

one of the benefits of dating a jewish girl

selective focus

lichen

Quercus dumosa (?)

Mountain Mahogany

This is as far as I got on my hike, stopped by the chaparral...

views from the ridge I was on, looking E (above) and NW back to the cars (below)
the bee and the spatial crew went N over the ridge near the cars and up the big mountain, something like a 3000' gain.

Sespe Creek bed

Mtn Mahogany

sorta selective focus

there were lots of blue jays hanging out in the chaparral

selective focus, Chia

view on the other side of the ridge I went up

more chia

little pinyon pine

oak, cork

the little ridge I went up on

Sespe Creek

clouds coming over the ridge

Bee's watercolor of the little hill we parked next to