HAPPY SPRING -

 From here on out I hope to post photos on my blog to remind me of where I am going to be during the next three seasons before winter shows up again.  I told myself at the end of fall last year I was going to try and find different trails to walk on - trails that I don't already know about.  

Today, since we are going down the mountain to Aldi and  few stores, I tried to find a trail somewhat close to where we will be.  I found one and it will be fun to discover what its' like.  It's in the foothills over near where I posted photos this last month about the casino.  

Yesterday we went to "Silverwood Lake" which is a huge lake and our overflow water here at Lake Gregory eventually goes down to Silverwood where there is a dam and a lot of different trails we have yet to discover.  We only went  on the  power company's, Edison, utility road that eventually goes to their towers.  It goes on a long way but we did a short walk because at one point it dipped down and I didn't have hiking shoes on so didn't feel like taking a slide down the trail.  You can see in the photo how far this road goes up through the foothills.  

Here are a few photos from yesterday.  It wasn't until I saw the photos i realized Mike's shirt matched the lake. We were able to see the lake from up above.  We have a good view and could see across to the high desert.  A few years back a huge fire ran through some of this area.  

I'm looking forward to our trip out today to see what this trail we found on the internet ...will actually look like.  

YESTERDAY'S OUTING - HIKING A BIT AROUND THE MOJAVE RIVER DAM

I had no idea that the Pacific Crest Trail cut through this area.  We had gone over to Hesparia area with the idea of visiting the mountains where we use to live for awhile before we moved here.  We never did make it because we found a trail to explore.   Because it wasn't a hot day we were able to go check it out and at some point we came to where this river runs through (not sure why the water looked so brown, probably very shallow because farther away in the sunlight it was blue. 

In a different area we went up to the top of the dam at Silverlake area and it was closed off to the public.  We had been able to get through to it before but probably because any area in nature which is open to the public - is a target for graffiti.  Eventually probably all parks will be closed in the future as more and more people deface everything they see around them.  Really VERY irritating.  Coming down from the dam area i was able to get pics of the wildflowers and irrigation channels. This area is a huge many acre ranch and often have cattle and horses out grazing.

on the way back we stopped again in this area above and I found a way to get close up to some poppies.