I’m scouting Skyline Ridge for a future column, and because you really can’t go wrong hiking there. It has ponds, easy trails, varied terrain, and a fair amount of wildflowers. Russian Ridge is far less sexy for the hiker purist…
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Santa Teresa County Park, a first look
by tom • March 31, 2008 • 3 Comments
So I told the gray-bearded mountain biker dude with the bike that probably cost more than my car, “I’d probably be a mountain biker but I have a this strange fear of flat tires.” “Well if that’s the only thing…
More Bay Area wildflower links
by tom • March 19, 2008 • 1 Comment
Sunset magazine’s Fresh Dirt blog has a bunch of pretty pictures and tips for finding flowery goodness. The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District holds multiple guided walks each weekend at their dozens of protected swaths of open space on the…
Wildflower intelligence, surveillance needed
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 9 Comments
I’m seeing hints of wildflower season — lots o’ poppies on steep, sunny hillsides, mainly — but I can’t be everywhere so I figured I may as well ask what the rest of you are seeing out there. So, let’s…
Wildflowers: Best Bay Area locales
by tom • February 9, 2008 • 5 Comments
I saw a couple little yellow blooms the last time out, the first hints of the blast of color coming up this spring. So far the weather seems to be pretty good: ample rain but not overdoing it, time between…
Calflora: for all you wildflower fiends
by tom • February 7, 2008 • 0 Comments
Calflora.org appears to have documented everything green (and any other hue) from Oregon to Mexico, Sierra to Pacific. The highlight is the Map Viewer, which shows where certain species have been seen in specific locations. The search engine is a…