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| DSCN2456.jpg Kathleen, Jana, Ted, Ron, Zona, Kathy, a horse's butt, and a couple that own the horse. You figure out which is the horse's butt. |
DSCN2457.jpg Just coming up to Bear Meadow. The wild flowers are spectacular. |
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| DSCN2458.jpg I keep offering shortcuts and easier hills. The group keeps saying, "No, let's do the bigger hill." They are in far too good a humor today. |
DSCN2459.jpg At Robin's suggestion, people try walking backwards up the hill. Of course, no one's body is fooled for a second into believing we're walking downhill instead of a steep uphill. |
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| DSCN2460.jpg At the vista point above the winery. |
DSCN2461.jpg Arriving at the Picchetti Winery. |
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| DSCN2463.jpg Perscilla poses. Janet and Ron (upper left) and Jim and Robin (right) get the rear view. |
DSCN2466.jpg Perscilla preens. |
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| DSCN2468.jpg Pandora poses. |
DSCN2469.jpg Jim, Sherman, Zona, Ted, Julia, Ron, Kathleen and Robin rest at the tree at the pond. |
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| DSCN2470.jpg Jim, Sherman, Mike, Zona, Ron, Julia, Robin and Ted rest at the tree at the pond. |
DSCN2471.jpg At the pond, Ron and Zona go searching for snakes, salamanders, newts, and other crawly things. Kathleen, like everyone else, moves away, in case the search is successful. |
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| DSCN2472.jpg At trail's end, Kathy, Julia, Kathleen, Robin and Ted dive in. As usual, we have food for twice as many people. |
DSCN2473.jpg Ron and Zona just escape being scofflaws by buying a parking ticket. |
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| DSCN2474.jpg Mike discovers that the blood oranges are, shall we say a bit "tart". Particularly after eating angel food cake and berries. |
DSCN2475.jpg Kathleen validates it -- don't eat blood oranges after strawberries. |
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| DSCN2476.jpg Ted, who has perhaps breathed too much jet fuel exhaust in his life, thinks the blood orange is just fine, except that it needs to be preceeded by a shot of tequila. |
hike1.jpg Perscilla poses for Jana. |
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| hike2.jpg Perscilla is a bit unsteady after the wine tasting. |
hike3.jpg Julia, Robin, Kathleen, Zona, Ron, and Marta look at the Stevens Canyon reservoir. |
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| hike4.jpg Heading from the vista point to the winery, we pass through wild fruit tree orchards in bloom. |