On the way home from a family lunch, we missed being able to go to the gym, so we stopped off at Bear Creek Redwoods Preserve for a little hike. I was at first reluctant to do it as I was full from lunch, but we were happy to find there was an easy trail on the other side of the road from the very steep trails.
Turns out it's the site of a former Jesuit school.
They've done a great job with planting out new native plants.
It was fun walking through this, we drive by this so often, all without ever knowing that it was even there!
This was the site of the old mansion, which burned down and was knocked down by the 1906 earthquake. There was a picture of it, and the boulder in front made a lot more sense.
A former parking garage/living area for the Jesuit students.
Looks like they built around an enormous oak tree, you can see the trunk remains in the cutout, and on the corner of the wall, there's a piece of one of the trunks surrounded by bricks. It grew into the wall!
I don't know why, but this cracked me up, the different bunches and types of grass growing on the top of each brick column.
A plant possibly related to Jasmine.
The clouds were super pretty looking out over the Lexington Reservoir hills.
The top of the trail we hiked on came out on an overlook over Highway 17.
It got very cloudy and muggy as we hit the halfway point. The sun was going too, and the park gates lock at dusk (which is when exactly?)
Surprise daffodils (narcissus) along one of the "ruins" brick walls. This was far away from the rest of the buildings on the Radio Hill trail.
Might oak roots vs. brick wall.
More oak root action on walls.
A teeny tiny lizard in the crevice.
Story of my life, beautiful poison oak, absolutely everywhere, and even growing out of a brick wall!
There are so many more trails for us to try out, I think we'll be stopping by many more times.
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