The pond and meadow:
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The pond sports a variety of wildlife, including ducks...
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Seagulls...
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And Canada Geese and goslings!
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The entrance to the meadow features a gate, a quaint wooden bridge and a waterfall!
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Elsa Rupp Nature Trail
The Elsa Rupp Nature Trail is a very peaceful place for walking. The trail winds along Big Spring Creek, with a dam and wooden bridges.
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Rainbow Ridge Trail
In April my mother, Betsy Hunt, Margarita and I took a walk along the Rainbow Ridge trail, which starts just down the road from our property. It winds up to Rainbow Ridge, which overlooks our road and offers a distant view of Mount Shasta City. We didn't go to the top, but the lower part is a beautiful walk through cedars, pines and manzanita bushes
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The Manzanita was in bloom!
On the way back, we visited our "neigh"-bors: Parvati the horse, Sonnet the sheep, and Sasha the Gordon Setter. They and their lovely human companions, Gary and Nicola, go for walks together along the road; it's fun to see them! Margarita likes to play with Sasha, and she LOVES Sonnet!
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Frog Pond
In early May, Betsy, Margarita and I visited Frog Pond, which adjoins the Larry Wehmeyer Environmental Educational Area. It has a beautiful view of Mount Shasta:
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It is also home to a variety of wildlife, including frogs, Mallards and Red-winged Blackbirds:
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Frog Pond is on North Shore Road, which follows the north shore of Lake Siskiyou. We ended our day overlooking the lake:
Hope you enjoyed our nature photos! Thanks for visiting!