Last half-mile of the trail traces old narrow-gauge train track. Sausalito to Russian River by train-imagine!

Looking up at entrance to Pioneer Tree. It has its own rose window!

Base of the Pioneer Tree, one of the very few old-growth redwoods that was not logged. This is a relatively young one at only a few hundred years old (estimated). It sustained a fire, and has a hollow interior you can crawl into. Several younger trees ha

Such beauty here.

Even in a redwood forest, I found some kink.

Trailhead, Pioneer Trail, Samuel P. Taylor State Park

Finally (for now, at least), a view from the bridge.

An old bay, another survivor of a fire.

"Pissed Off Salmon Crossing" is more like it.

Ruins of a fishpond at Camp Taylor. Samuel Taylor built a hotel close by, too. It did not survive.

Her inside walls, showing growth over the burned area. Such survivors are these trees!

Inside beautiful redwood, looking out and up. She survived quite a fire at some point.

With luck, before long I'll have more baby rabbits foot ferns than you can shake a stick at. Like one? DM me. Please?

This is one of the new additions to my garden: lobelia laxifolia, aka Mexican lobelia.

The world according to Americans

Everything out of the oven.

First loaf's out of the oven.

...and another. I'm hoping my landlord will give me more land to plant.

A bit of my tiny garden.

Thimbleberries and cow parsnip