After I took the girls exploring in that fancy hotel, we drove through the back streets of Berkeley… which also happens to be the name of a song I wrote a long time ago… The Back Streets of Berkeley.
Once again, I did not plan a route or a destination. I just let instincts and fun guide my way. We ended up in the hills above Berkeley, and I stopped to take this picture…
As I have mentioned, it was a hazy day, and there was fog over the bay, but if I zoom in a little, you should be able to see San Francisco in the distance…
We drove further into the hills, and ended up on Grizzly Peak Blvd. I know I have shared lots of pictures of this view, but I just never get tired of it…
This is one of the few times I have gone back home to the Bay Area and not driven to this spot to take a sunset picture…
There is a tree growing there that always makes me think of Hobbits. The rock is very stratified… made of these layers of shale… and the roots of the tree have grabbed hold of the rock and done interesting things with it. The white flowers nestled within the roots just adds to the Shire-like quality of the tree.
Even without the setting sun, this view never gets old.
Pouring My Art Out 
Quite nice to know you also appreciate the simple beauty of nature.
when we forget nature, we forget where we come from and what we are
What’s up? You are starting to sound vvvvery philosophical often these days. More crack, please?
I have my deep end
Deeply bent?
sometimes
I thought mostly.
I mostly thought
Not that I’m allergic to this side of you.
I was worried about that
At ease now.
parade rest
Stand easy.
stand down
Your Shire tree is quite remarkable. The stories that could be told…or written! It seems it could inspire the imagination to new levels.
I know it works on mine
One of my favourite cities in the world, for sure.
Me too… and not just this world
Can’t wait to see your pics of your otherworldly adventures.
I have tons of those here… all the alien pictures…
Beautiful
it always is
You know PMAO, your photography is pretty good. With your photoshop skills…
Check this out: http://thomasbarbey.com/
You could do this. If you ever feel like doing a little more serious photo montage. I buy his calendars and use the pages as art on my walls.
those are awesome… the under the pool one… the river inside a building!
That is my favorite art. My husband is a very good photographer. His photos would be awesome montages too, but you should at least try a few.
I am playing with ideas in my head…
I loved it there. The first paragraph of my next post mentions my last visit in passing long ago. Back in the late 60’s, a girl was visiting friends here and she wanted me to move there and live and love with her and her family in Mill Valley. She had already got the okay from her parents. A different world back then.
The 70’s were an awesome time to be a teenager there
the 70’s were an awesome time to be a teenager anywhere. I wonder if all teenagers feel this way?
Maybe, but I still think the Bay Area was the center of a lot of stuff
You know, if I lived in that place, I would not stop writing. I would write constantly. I would write while walking, while bleeding, while pumping gas, while breeding. Because that’s just sheer legend, those photos.
As I say, Berkeley is the center of many universes.
must…. go…. there
yes you must… when I am there to show you around
Deal!
okay
It sounds like you, Mollie, and Lucy had a wonderful day all around. 🙂
San Francisco is the only western city I’ve been to that felt anything like a city to me.
It is that and more… and I am not done with the adventure yet.
🙂
ha
I’m waiting…
I am on it as soon as I answer my comments
You’ll never finish.
seems like
XD
I just posted it
I’m just reading it. 🙂
alrightythen
Looks like a nice hike! Thanks for sharing the photos!
thanks for looking