New Year’s Day Walk

The New Year’s Day walk could have been a hike, had we taken food and more than one measly little water bottle. Alas, we did not. We went to the Salt Creek/Case Mt. BLM recreational area and walked from the Salt Creek road (rather than Skyline Drive) up, up and up. It was a smoggy hazy day, and the land wanted rain. We encountered about 8 different walking and biking parties; 4 were folks we know. Three Rivers is small. (A friend recently said to me that the good thing about Three Rivers is that it is small; the bad thing about Three Rivers is that it is small.) Going places, even those close to home, getting outside, looking around–these are all sources of inspiration, a requirement to this Central California artist.

We started here by the loading chute.
The road isn’t too steep here. It goes past 2 ponds full of slime.
Up and up and up; that is the first waterfall across the canyon.
The first waterfall.
The sycamores sure held their color this winter.
The second waterfall is barely visible in the shadows; guess you had to be there.

 

I am so thankful for the rain we have received since New Year’s Day, but we still need more. Alas, those folks in Montecito. . . yikes.

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4 Comments

  1. How lucky you are with such beauty for inspiration!

    • Janet, I don’t always use what I see and photograph for my art. Often the long walks in pretty places just clear my mental noise and clutter.

  2. What a beautiful place for a walk, Jana. Getting outside is a wonderful source of inspiration for me too. It’s been too darn cold here this month, but even just poking my head out the door helps! đŸ™‚

    • Cheryl, our winters are so very different from each other! But today we have rain and it is supposed to cool off to normal winter temperatures with this storm.

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