Sunol: April 2005 Archives

The ladies of the Sunol Homeowners Association are still impatiently awaiting their cable tv, and insist that they be hooked up before Constantine gets kicked off of American Idol. Thank you for your attention.

Click below to see Sunol's tiny version of Yosemite...

Another look at the this exclusive local plant.

I post more pictures of poppies not because it is prudent, but because I prefer it. I will post poppies until people pop from the persistence of poppies.

The yellow flowers in the middle, I believe, are the endemic Mt. Diablo Sunflowers, which only grow within a fairly close proximity of Mt. Diablo (this is about 40 miles away). They were all over the park.

What is that you say? That it is not possible to post more pictures of poppies? Pshaw! Pshaw!

For readers offended by the persistence of poppies, I post this picture, which I consider to be the anti-poppy, as consolation:

By the way, if anyone knows what species that is, I'm curious. Couldn't find him in the books. Found on the park road at Sunol Regional Wilderness Park, near the visitor's center.

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.