Camp Pendleton Photos

Pechanga

So let's begin with the basic events of the day. i wake up, go to work, drive straight to school to get my camera....ya know, the normal start to my week. I was having a little "case of the mondays", but i still had a smile on my face and a good attitude. When BOOM, I'm almost to the field trip site and i get hit with the worse allergy attack I've probably had in a year. Now I've been fight your everyday cold for weeks now, so maybe that was a little contributor. but really, i was feeling the best I've felt in a while, rested, no headaches, good attitude; and now my day is ruined. i say ruined because this allergy attack didn't just pass by,.... i was sneezing and itching my eyes and blowing my nose so much that if my sinus' weren't screwed up then,they sure are now..cuz it's 2:30 in the morning and i still can't sleep because i can't breathe. somebody put me out of my misery.

OK...so now that i got all the whining off my chest, let's talk Native Plants. In all honesty, it was hard of me to enjoy the scenery and take in all the information with my head feeling like a balloon. but i did get some picture i like. I loved those tiny little purple flowers. I'm a sucker for anything pretty and colorful (wow i sound like a bee or something), but it was so interesting to me that since the flowers were so small everyone had to get really close to them to get a good shot. it's nice how we have a chance to notice the details of something once we're that close. after seeing these little buds in such detail, i realized that the similar purple flowers close by were really not similar at all. Each one had a different tint, size, and shape...it's own little personality squeezed into that 3 centimeters of beauty.

Spreads in the Works...

Hey World...here's the beginnings of my Native Plant Book. I'm still developing some textual content, so stay posted.

Rincon

Rincon was quite beautiful. It's amazing to see how nature regenerates itself after the fire. Even the things that still showed remnants of being burned were also really pretty. My favorite things though were the beautiful tall trees and the stream. Here are just a few of my pictures from the trip. Thanks to Gavin for posing in my shot, even if he didn't know til now he was in it. ;-)

View From Indian Rock

more Indian Rock pics...