South Bay Spring

Nearly a week ago, after getting my first ever flat on any of my bikes (and getting it fixed), I went for my oft-proposed ride up the Los Gatos Creek trail. I had been itching to ride up the creek for weeks and finally the planets were in the right places, etc etc and I could ride!

My goodness it was lovely!

I shall let you judge for yourselves. Click on any of the pics to go to the Flickr sizes page. :-)




(Redbuds - natives)


(the creek from a bridge - all green and growing!)


(A rather small egret in said creek)


(Another small egret further up the creek)


(common fiddleneck - native)


Something lives in this hole, a Californian Ground Squirrel I think but it dashed away before I could get a shot of it. It was being stalked by a presumably feral calico cat.


(Statice - weed)


(Canadians walking on water)


(Percolation ponds looking northish)


(Percolation ponds looking southish/Los Gatos-ish)


(Weedy but very very native - I love Californian poppies!)




(Lupinus succulentus - native)








(Male ?swamp? Baccharis - native)


(Female ?swamp? Baccharis - native)


(Some of the prettiest weeds you'll ever see but boy are they pests. I doubt if there is one native species in that shot.)




(Just below the Vasona Lake weir)


(lake outlet)

I am really enjoying this spring - it is quite exuberant :-)