Some Pictures from my UPS Route Today

[Cadillac STS]

I’ve visited California before. I was impressed about how much easy public access there is to so many nice places. Can get to the ocean and so many nice parks and outdoor places. Fire pits at the beaches to use. Bring a bundle of wood in the evening sit by the fire on the beach as the sun goes down. Really beautiful and clean.

Compared to so many other places in the country where most all the nice places are private with little easy access to the ordinary public.

 

[erikmannie]

I’ve visited California before. I was impressed about how much easy public access there is to so many nice places. Can get to the ocean and so many nice parks and outdoor places. Fire pits at the beaches to use. Bring a bundle of wood in the evening sit by the fire on the beach as the sun goes down. Really beautiful and clean.

Compared to so many other places in the country where most all the nice places are private with little easy access to the ordinary public.

There are thousands of acres of state parks just on this UPS route. I went hiking, mushroom collecting and beach camping when I was younger. It is always a good time.

 

[erikmannie]

Baby turkey (“poult”) on King Ridge Rd. in Cazadero, CA. View from up on Magic Mountain (also in Cazadero) & a burned RV in Monte Rio, CA.









Boy, did the turkey hen come after me for getting in between her & her young chick!

 

[erikmannie]

Bonus baby turkey photos: one where you can see his feet & 3 baby turkeys on the road.

 

[erikmannie]

Part of a snake:

 

[Aukai]

I'm guessing it wasn't a rattle snake

 

[erikmannie]

I'm guessing it wasn't a rattle snake

Not unless he was working undercover.

 

[erikmannie]

Old building with a sign “Cazadero Welding & Repair”:



Way too many pictures of a baby rattlesnake. I’ve never seen a budding rattle before. This snake is not injured; it was sunning itself on the road.















Edit: I Googled the weird rattle, & it is a “birth button” which shows that this snake has never shed beyond his postnatal shedding.

 

[Larry$]

Nice photos. People around here have been complaining about coyotes and fox in town. Deer eating their gardens. City living animals get used to people so you are more likely to see them.

 

[erikmannie]

Here are some pictures from the busy holiday season on my UPS route:

Hawk with a squirrel roadkill.



Saturn over the Pacific at sunset behind a Cypress tree.



Reservoir on Reservoir Rd. on Brain Ridge in the Cazadero Hills.



Cows on Tin Barn Rd. at night.



View looking East from Brain Ridge.



View of Mohrhardt Ridge (looking SE from Seaview Ranch Rd.).



Baxter, who manages to get 5 dog bones from me every day!



Ernie, the reason that I finally started buying dog bones.



Sunset at the mouth of the Russian River in Jenner, CA.



My UPS truck with the mouth of the Russian River in the background.



Sunset over Fort Ross State Park in Timber Cove, CA.



Hill on King Ridge Rd. after a big storm.