Gill on the hill

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Ladybug spawning

We have been visiting a collection of ladybugs at a local creek. I remember visiting this same creek about twenty years ago with friends and excitedly scooping up ladybugs. When they start crawling up your pants, they are definitely more in the "bug" category than in the "aren't they cute" category.

Redwoods

To him, it is just a grove of trees with sticks and dirt. He has a great time in the Trail of 100 Giants, an incredible low-trafficked grove of Giant Sequoia trees.

Fourth of July under the Pines

This parade is a highlight of the year here in the southern Sequoia National Forest. The 4-H club sponsors a parade that is just so quaint, I would travel for it if I didn't live here. Anybody at all can enter the parade as a few of the pictures would suggest, but it is basically all of the locals riding whatever they may choose. The last picture is the deputy scooping horse manure out of the street, not keen with being photographed, he was throwing it right in my direction. I had to jump to miss it.

Thistle

It has a great profile, but this bad boy is taking over the foothills and competing for space with pasture grass. One rancher burned a big patch. I hike in the spring with a hoe to battle it.