Mt. W, on a lovely storm-clearing morning back in May of 2014 (yeah, almost a year ago! You can see the speed with which I get around to doing anything with my photos...!)...
But it was such a pretty light and color show, it's worth going back to.
Some people refer to these cloud-piercing beams of sunlight as God rays, which seems like a good name to me.
My point and shoot can't really do these scenes justice, but I hadn't been interested in lugging my 5-pounder along with me those days...
My leapin' lizard of a dog scopes out the rock...
"But Mommy, I'm sure I can climb it!"
"I'm sure you can dear, but not today."
Looking back at the town of R, in all its green-field, sunlit glory.
Zou taking in the wonderful scenery.
Posing for her mum.
A particularly cool pile of rocks, with different lighting conditions...
God rays and God rocks.
Sadly, this photo pays homage to the sweet little pine tree that is no longer with us. Its brown figure is still there, standing over the jumble of rocks, but it's drought-claimed life is gone.
My patient, tolerant pooch, posing for yet one more photograph...
Looking down towards the northeastern base of Mt. W, at the golf course and surrounding houses.
The view east, of the rocks we pass by and the water tank we walk beside.
Zou provides scale for yet another monolith.
Almost back to our car, we are at the short section of level dirt trail at the bottom.
(and for all those I've talked foxtails to, the dying grasses alongside the trail? Their seeds are the foxtails! They become especially dangerous to doggies as they die and become dry and hard - although they can still be very bad news while still green! Unfortunately, many, many trails in San Diego have these grasses everywhere. It's very hard to avoid!! I just have to be super careful to not let her snort them!)
