Picture: Guess This

        I want to get a little ahead and write this tonight (Sunday) so that I can auto-post it and try to get a little cushion on the daily output of the blog. But I have a little writer’s block, well not so much of true block, but I dicked around on Reddit long enough that I should throw something together. Plus, I promised myself that I couldn’t watch tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead until I wrote something. I started seeing spoilers while procreating on Reddit, so it was time to type.

        I was still at a loss of topic and then decided to do something and create a little visual aid at the same time, so I’m going to go into my digital pictures and count down from 6, forth folder, then the third, etc. until I get a picture. I will then post it and tell the story about it.

Here it is:

        This was unlabeled and it took me a minute looking at the other pictures next to it to figure out what was going on. I’ll give you a second and then some clues to see if you can guess it. First clue: Familiar foothills, but which side of the valley? Second, the destination really is better than the journey, in this case. Third, you can’t “Pass” it up.

        The occasion was a spring trip to Stanford. The foothills of the Valley can be so beautiful when there is moisture present and they look like an unmade bed with a quilt of green.  The green in the hills of the Bay Area have a similar pleasant appearance, but they also fade with the heat of the summer. There are moments in summer when the yellow stalked foothills do not evoke desolation and destitution, usually when your car AC reaches its coldest temperature. But they are at their best in the Spring.

        So now is the time to take a drive (rather when it stops raining). Most of the stone fruit blossoms will have departed, but branches and the hills will be sprouting green. And if you lucky, you might hit some wild flowers like this: