Boulder to boulder

The picture above is taken on Boulder Loop, a trail that is part of the trail system of Dailey ranch, a desert park area of Escondido.

It's a very pleasant walk and now is the best season to be there: the grass is green, the flowers are in bloom and the bees are buzzing all over them.

New Food

New Breakfast Food

Tasty "Wheaties" as everyone on earth knows, is "The Breakfast of Champions", and I have known about this cereal all my life.

In fact I think I remember hearing the radio jingle: "Have you tried Wheaties? The best breakfast food in the land!" sung before and after the daily (or weekly, I forget) dose of "Jack Armstrong--The All-American Boy", quite a while ago.

I have recently noticed, in the breakfast food department of our local supermarkets, a new Wheaties knock-off named "Fuel" in a narrow black package with some rather sinister-looking sports heroes in full-face portraits.

These men definitely seem more from the dark side of sports--they are tough and rather mean-looking.

No Jack Armstrong here!

So goes the new role-model for today's youth.

Different world, isn't it?

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Hawk and Crow

Hawk and Crow

A little brush with in-the-raw nature today.

I was walking down to get some groceries at Vallarta, our neighborhood market, when I noticed a small flock of crows dive-bombing a hawk perched on the roof of a cell-phone shop.

The crows were giving the hawk a very bad time and he looked quite frustrated--but the crows took care to attack him from the rear and to stay out of harm's way!

This was right above a very busy intersection with plenty of traffic.

Nice to see a little 'nature" mixed in with all the human activity--even if it was a dust-up between bird species!

When I paused to snap this photo, the crows retreated to a nearby eucalyptus tree to observe--they didn't return to the attack until I walked away.

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Happy Easter 2010

Happy Easter!


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