Wildflowers at Sunol Regional Wilderness

After meeting the fine ladies of the Sunol Homeowners' Association (see previous post), I hiked through the Canyon View Trail at the Sunol Regional Wilderness park. This gorgeous park is in full bloom this year, as Northern California has had plenty of rain. The grasses are green, the variety of flowers can't be counted, and the endless green hills are disturbed only be the occasional artistically placed oak. This week we'll take a long, slow walk through a small portion of this huge complex of parks in the East Bay hills. The poppies were everywhere.

And the occasional dead tree--due to natural causes, or the Oak Death disease that many are worrying about here I don't know--contrasted against the bursting green hills.

Say it with me now, "The hills are alive! The hills are aliiiiiiiive!" Ok, don't. But check back in over the next few days to see a low elevation version of a Swiss landscape. And a teeny tiny version of Yosemite.