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sketches

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Sketches done in open spaces during the month. A meander around the zoo must include the elephants. Another evening stroll in the Henninger Flat direction . Concessions at the free concerts in Memorial Park. Not a good day for walking as the Station Fire (behind the Pasadena Library) makes everything sting.

Eaton Wash

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Altadena front country Haven't been hiking in, um, a while. It must be a month. I could check that here, but that would surely be cheating. Since the moon is fullish and the moonrise calculator said the moon would be up not too late and I know it's an easy trail to take in the dark, I headed up the way to Henninger Flat around 9PM. Mother Nature seems to have taken into account the actual landscape of the area in calculating when the moon will really rise, so it wasn't actually up until after I'd got to where I was going and had sat for a while.  I had some possible companions, but they decided not to. For one, this was probably for the best since her knee isn't good and the trail at the bottom is steep enough to cause problems with that. I made rather good time, for me, going up. I parked along Altadena Dr. and got up the trail to the toll road plus a little to where there is a park bench for folks, which is something like a mile up, by 20 to 10

Santa Barbara Zoo

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We went off to the zoo. I didn't have my camera, but mom brought hers and I got to take some photos of the kitties. There's always something interesting to be found in the Tropical Aviary.

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