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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
We woke up one morning to a deer in the next door neighbor's back yard
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
I was of course obsessed with this deer and came to the conclusion that he must be hurt because why else would he stay in the next door neighbor's backyard when we were so close? I later saw him walking away with a limp:(
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
Some of the charming houses of Pacific Grove
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
We took a drive down Highway 1 past Carmel
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
We kept driving south of Big Sur on Highway 1 to Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park to see McWay Falls, a 80 foot waterfall on the beach
On the way back to LA we stopped at Pinnacles National Monument so that I could get another stamp on my National Parks Passport. The "pinnacles" are eroded leftovers of an extinct volcano.
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
On the way back to LA we stopped at Pinnacles National Monument so that I could get another stamp on my National Parks Passport. The "pinnacles" are eroded leftovers of an extinct volcano.
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
We took backroads home through cow fields. Cows were grazing along the roads, not many cars come by here.
We stopped by Carrizo Plain National Monument to see what it looked like in the middle of summer. A very big contrast to what it looked like covered in wildflowers just two and a half months earlier
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
We stopped by Carrizo Plain National Monument to see what it looked like in the middle of summer. A very big contrast to what it looked like covered in wildflowers just two and a half months earlier
July 2010
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
March 2010
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| From Carrizo Plain National Monument |
July 2010
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
March 2010
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| From Carrizo Plain National Monument |
Soda Lake dries up in the summer and leaves behind a crust of sodium sulfates and carbonates.
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
