Alternate Path Again

Tortugas Mountain on the horizon

As we started down LDR-A arroyo this morning I saw two people with a dog heading our way on LDR.  To avoid contact we turned east immediately and bushwhacked over to Right Branch Arroyo.

We headed down the right branch to the junction with the left, trekked up the left branch midway and began bushwhacking again to the east.

We climbed to the crest of the hill where Swainson's Hawks like to perch atop a Torrey Yucca.  I took a few photos and then we headed back the way we came, again entering the left branch, crossing to the middle branch and descending to the junction with the right.  We ascended the right branch and exited over the steep hill to the west.

After our outing the "O"s and I took a ride around various neighborhoods before heading home.

Soaptree Yucca in the left branch

This & next:  bushwhacking vistas

Green horizontal line at center is the Tellbrook Arroyo

Closer look at the Tellbrook Arroyo

Torrey Yucca where the Swainson's Hawks like to perch

This & next:  barrel cactus

Meadowhawk Drangonfly

Arroyo

Same Meadowhawk as above, different angle

This & next 2:  another beautiful barrel cactus

This & next:  Black-throated Sparrow

Willow and Frio

We hiked out to that yucca (center) where hawks perch

The "O"s