Being still is one of my favorite ways to be in the forest.
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The ladybugs have arrived which means means winter in here! Every year when temperatures drop, hundreds of thousands of ladybugs gather in the East Bay hills to hibernate. Even though each year brings a new generation of ladybugs, they always return the exact same spots.
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On this early June morning the color palette was pink and gold—rouge veiny backlit ears of a jackrabbit, ripe peaches and cream petals of the Tiburon Mariposa lily, and fields of ruby chalice clarkia—all displayed against a backdrop of dry golden grasses.
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I stayed with the trees until after the sun went down. When the last light was almost gone from the sky, it illuminated the giants in soft patches—only small pieces of the vast trunks visible—the rest vanished into shadow.
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I hadn't been there very long when the sound of the Pileated Woodpecker pecking ferociously at the moss-covered tree trunk began to echo throughout the quiet forest floor.
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The Red Clintonia is found only in foggy coastal forests from Northern California to Oregon.
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