A warm summer Friday, and I had a few hours to spend with a ride from downtown out to Aptos and Nicene Marks State Park - for a walk through redwoods and streamside rocks with Becky and 3 year old Ezra. We all enjoyed the cool waters and opportunities for flexing new skills in a beautiful environment.
Bees have had it rough for years now... so I really enjoyed that this little guy got a nice big flower all to himself |
Ezra hams it up, at a dead car by the trail |
Maples, in this dry year, are already starting to lose some leaves |
Becky and Ezra - best in watercolor for this one |
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Rendered in pastels
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Leaves of maple, oak, and alder |
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Look Mommy - a fish! |
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Master of the Rocks |
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King Ezra, on his thone of redwood |
Fun climbing up and down and throwing his new nerf ball around from the summit of this redwood nest, with a couple of other kids |
Back at the car, Ezra tries out his bug net on the Big Bug Becky |
It was a fun afternoon! |
