A River Trip

Howdy folks! Christa and I got the chance Wednesday to get out of the big shitty city and spend a day out in nature. A trip to the river was top on my mind, and the day turned out splendid! We both snapped a few pics along the way.

Everything was nice and green due to the recent rains





After the long hike down we’re almost to the area





There were many flowers blooming out there. Not so sure on ID’s here, hopefully rockpickerforever can chime in here 


These were growing on vines over other bushes.. I'm think Morning Glories?








This one was similar but red





Some pretty orange flowers.. California Poppies maybe?








These big white blooms are all over out there.





And some very pretty trumpet blooms, the only one of these I spotted there





So one thing that was trippy, the ground was crawling with caterpillars!





Jean do you know what these are?








They were literally crawling and falling into pools of water. They’d wiggle a bit then sink to the bottom





This one was very different from the rest





Finally made it down to the river which is running muddy from the resent monsoons





We hounded a bit then relaxed in the shade and had a picnic. It was terrific! Soon the skies above us got noisy and we looked up to see a horde of crows above. If you zoom in you’ll see over 50 in this pic (yes I was counting crows)





Really wild sight!


Finally it was time to hike out. Stopped along the way and took a pic of my darling wife





We got up to the car and had a friend waiting for us!








I took those two, Christa took this one





What a great day! I will be posting the rock haul on the Specimens board. Found a real good one


Thanks for coming along!