A rather odd photo of Hazel hanging out with 'big baby' earlier this week.
Lena and Hazel checking things out.
Two weekends ago we went for a hike at Hidden Villa, a farm/nature center in Los Altos. Lena was very eager to apply her tracking skills after studying up in Tracking and the Art of Seeing by Paul Rezendes.
An ant nest in the trail complete with coin for scale.
Banana slug! Lena was entranced.
Tracker extraordinaire.
Paul and Hazel.
Mouse poop with scale.
Hazel kicking it in her hammock last week.
Last weekend we visited the cactus garden on the Stanford Campus one morning. It is great and it was fun to scout around for hummingbirds and lizards.
We also spent part of the weekend doing some bike maintenance.
Lena wielding her great-grandpa's wrench as we work on her bike.
Spruced-up bike complete with basket.
Animals feasting (or running?) at the lollipop stand.
When Hazel is feeling like raising a ruckus we've found the view from her changing mat in the living room to be particularly calming. Here is that view, gazing towards the rug her great grandmother made.
Last weekend Paul ran a fieldtrip for his paleobiology class to New Brighton State Beach near Santa Cruz to look at marine sediments deposited between 6-2.5 million years ago.
The geology there is fantastic and here is but a small sampling of the succulent shell beds.
Nesting seabirds.
More shellbeds.
A really cool phosphatic hardground that records a hiatus in deposition on the seafloor during which the durable bones of marine mammals accumulated.
Marine mammal bone.
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