Photo of a Perfect Red Rose with Dewdrops ...and... Pink Roses, Trees and Clouds on a Beautiful Day in Orangevale, California near Sacramento... We Have a Couple of Redwood Trees... AND NO RIOTS!

On a Weekend that has the People on the TV NEWS Rioting, I Noticed that Things are Pretty Good Here in Rural California. Those People Over There are Behaving Crazy and Not Having Fun... Glad I'm Here and Not in the City! 

a Perfect Red Rose with Dewdrops

I Often Question IF the People I See On The TV NEWS Are Real... and then I Change the Channel, Turn Off The Sound and focus my Attention on the Birds Chirping... 

Broken Automatic Watering System.
It Just Creates a Puddle in the Dirt.
The Lawn is Dying

I'm really getting into NOTICING REALITY... On My Morning Walk Today I went Downstream Past the Vineyards... Observations on 5/1/2020

The Grape Vines have Sprouted with Incredibly Tiny Grapes... each one is about a Twentieth of an Inch in Diameter... Bright Green... and Since I am the only person that walks this Path... It has become overgrown with weeds... Some are Over Six Feet Tall! It has Been a Week since I Have gone in this direction and... The Vegetable Garden is returning to Nature... The Former Landlord had a Hobby of Growing Onions and Squash but now... it looks like a Post Apocalypse Science Fiction Movie... I also noticed two Cats... Since No People Have walked that path, the Cats Like it... also at the Bench at the End of the Path is in a Shady Spot! I used to enjoy Sunbathing on that Bench but NOW... The Sun Has MOVED due to the Seasons... and It's Behind a Tall Tree... Today there were very few Geese in the Field Next door... Sometimes I Have Seen a Dozen... But NOT TODAY...

This is what the Creek Path Looked Like
a Couple of Months Ago...
Now it is Overgrown With Weeds...
NO PATH EXISTS!
But Since I Know Where I'm Going I Just
FORGE A TRAIL!

I Really Love Taking a Walk in the Woods... I Do It Every Day Now That I'm Retired... I Remember the Trail from The Novitiate to Lexington Dam Spillway, in Los Gatos. CA. Then Take a Left and Come Back Over the Top of the Mountain... Spectacular Views of Santa Clara County.

In High School, The Basketball Team Would Run This Route... Yes, I was on the Team But I Was a Very Bad Player... a Slow Runner, Couldn't Put The Ball in the Basket and Dribbling Was Just Not My Thing... Other Players Would Simply Take the Ball Away from me when I Bounced it... I made the Team for Three Years but Refused to Play in my Senior Year because the Coach (My Math Teacher) and I Disagreed About Everything... However... I WAS on the Swim Team all four years. One Side Effect of Swimming in Chlorine is that it Prevents Acne...

Here is a Satellite Photo of Lexington Dam and the Trail Back over the Top of the Mountain is Clearly Visible at the TOP CENTER of the Picture... Hopefully People will Try That Hike Now that You Know Where it is... There is a SUPER VIEW of the Santa Clara Valley...

Google Satellite Photo of Lexington Dam in Los Gatos, CA

The REASON I Take a Walk Every Day is that a Couple of Years ago I Had to use a Walker... Somehow my Legs Failed for a few Months... I moved into this Old Folks Home and DID THE WALKING using my walker and REHABILITATED MYSELF... I'm not really sure Why my Legs Failed but Just before I Moved here I Smoked a Pound of Oregon Legal Marijuana in Eight Months and then Lived in a Mental Hospital for 15 Days... They Gave me Lithium at the Hospital... and I Suffered an Adverse Reaction... But, I'm In Great Health NOW... I Believe That Marijuana Should Be Legal BUT... I Refuse To Actually Smoke it... Not Healthy for Me... I saw things That Didn't Exist and Experienced Events That Didn't Happen... Maybe it's Good For YOU But Not Me...

BLACK HAT HACKER Embroidered Hat for sale.

Slogan is Embroidered in BLACK THREAD on a BLACK HAT making it Difficult to Read... It's a JOKE! and a Common Web Design Trick... "Secret Communication"

BLACK HAT HACKER Embroidered Hat for sale.
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For Global Climate Strike Day, I Took a Hike Down By The Creek in My Neighborhood - NO DRIVING NEEDED - Oh The Place I'll GO! With a Brain in My Head and Shoes on my FEET!

And then Chat Forbes Said on Facebook:
Greta Thunberg!! Way to go, from one person to the biggest world wide environmental protest in the history of Planet Earth!!!!
You old fuddy duddies flat-earthers who don’t believe in climate change, get your asses out of the way, my kids and grand kids need to live and take care of this mess we’re leaving them.
If climate change is a hoax (don’t think so), at least we’ll have cleaner air, earth & water: that’s nothing but a good thing!!!
I don’t know if people of my era remember, but coming back from Santa Cruz into the Santa Clara Valley was like dropping into a brown purple haze caused from all the pollution in the 1960’s. I personally don’t want to return to that period of toxic air if the powers that be are unregulated. Those that don’t agree can go “f” yourselves!!!!

and I replied: 
 I remember seeing that smog! I was working pushing shopping carts at P&W Super on Blossom Hill Road at Almaden Expressway AND SOME DAYS I COULD NOT SEE THE BUILDING ON TOP OF MOUNT UMUNHUM... and if you know where that all is... that's about a five mile visibility...

Low Coffee Prices CAUSE Farmers to Leave Central America and Walk to Texas... or Switch Crops to Cocaine... Yet, NO PRICE Discount to Consumers... Just The Rich Owners of Corporations Benefit...

The low prices have led to coffee growers abandoning their farms in Guatemala while Colombian farmers turned to coca, which is processed into cocaine.

https://www.ft.com/content/21907ea6-5f98-11e9-a27a-fdd51850994c

The lowest international coffee prices in a decade are leading many despairing farmers in Central and South America to abandon their farms, fueling fears of an industry crisis. “The volatility is destroying livelihoods,” said John Steel, chief executive of Cafédirect, one of the UK’s first coffee roasters to offer producers Fair Trade pricing which counts Peruvian coffee co-operatives as among its main suppliers. Mr Steel added that farmers were joining migration caravans while elsewhere younger generations were opting out of coffee production in many countries. “If you’re a parent and making a living from coffee, seeing the way [low prices] are impacting the market, it’s not what you want for [your children],” he said. 

This morning during my dawn hike, I noticed a Chirping sound way up high. I could not see any Bats but there was an Undeniable Three Dimensional Sound in the Sky.

 I have experienced this before during the Seventeen (17) year Cicadas in Rock Creek Park located in Washington DC... In what has to be the most bizarre life cycle ever, animals like grasshoppers are born, mate and then the eggs go back into the earth. Seventeen Years Later, animals like grasshoppers are born, mate and then the eggs go back into the earth. If you ever wondered about the Meaning of Life... this has got to make you wonder... WHY? 

This is a Sign! GO!

I'm watching a show on The HOPE Channel about the Life cycle of the Eastern Monarch Butterfly. They live in Canada and the American Midwest Eating Milkweed... Milkweed has a Poison that makes Caterpillars and Butterflies TASTE BAD... Helping them survive... In the Fall, they all fly to Mexico...  It's Too damn Cold in Canada... 300 Million go to the Same Place... To a place with a Magnetic Anomaly where there are a Lot of Heavy Metals. A specific forest about 70 miles west of Mexico City... 10,000 feet above sea level. and they go to the same place every year even though NONE OF THEM HAD BEEN THERE BEFORE. This is a different flock of butterflies than the ones that Live North of Santa Cruz... At Natural Bridges State Park... I have a appreciation for butterflies because that entire "Thing" of changing from a Caterpillar into a Butterfly is a Classic LSD Experience... Later, the Butterflies Leave Mexico and Go Back to Canada... and Around and Around and Around we go... I have a special fondness for all living things. I can see that we are all brothers and sisters... I don't feel much kinship for rocks... Mostly I experience a Realization that Trees, Cats, Dogs, Bears, Dolphins and Green Slime are all members of My Family. GAIA is the Most Logical Religion for Me... Yes, I love Bacon and Hamburgers but... It's unlikely that lunch will lead to their extinction... Maybe it's a survival strategy that blesses the Sacred Cow... More Chickens live in the USA than People... We go out of our way to feed Cows and Make sure they have a nice warm barn for chilly weather... The final conclusion of The HOPE Channel is that the Life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly is so bizarre that it cannot be explained using Darwin's Theory of Evolution... Only God could do this... Could BE True, but Not Likely NOR SIGNIFICANT... What IF we Never figure out the Origin of Life, we STILL should stop Killing Things for Corporate Profit. Then that show was over and they started saying that Jesus is the ONLY WAY... and by Definition... all those OTHER Religions are Like, Totally BOGUS... and it's a Small Step to Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition and all that Killing that Christians and Muslims do... GEE HAAAAAAD! and the Atheist, Buddhists, Hindus, Devotees of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Zoroastrians all wonder what's wrong with these people?

Big Daddy in the Sky watching Over Us...

In other news, There is a Grasshopper Infestation in Las Vegas. That is really like a Biblical Plague out of the Old Testament... It doesn't take much imagination to conclude that we are in the "End Times" predicted in the Book of Revelations. Notice the GREEN SLIME in the Gulf of Mexico... In the Bible, the Nile turned into a river of Blood... Well, this time it's a Different Color... I remember the Story of Noah... God flooded the world and Gave Noah the SIGN of the Rainbow promising that there would Never Be another Flood... Well, IT'S FIRE THIS TIME... Especially in the Arctic... Alaska, Northern Canada and Siberia are experiencing vast wildfires releasing MEGATONS of Carbon... and HEAT itself... So, the air pollution will increase Global Warming, and MELT the Permafrost... releasing Methane... and Around and Around and Around we go... 

on a different subject... I was wondering...

WHAT IF the people that make and sell weapons simply got a different job? It is possible to earn a living without Causing Disaster. Look within and realize that real eyes see thru real lies... "They" tell you that you need a gun for safety... to protect your Family... In fact, having a gun in the house makes you less safe. Increase in Suicide, Increase in Gun Accidents, Increase in One Family Member Shooting Another During an Argument... all those fatalities are greater that the lives saved by defending your family from the So Called "Bad Guys." Does anyone really believe that we need guns so that we can fight the Government in the case of Excessive Oppression? That plan always fails... Ruby Ridge, WACO... The Government has More and Better Weapons and a Citizens Militia has NO Freaking Chance... I think it's all Marketing by Weapons Manufacturers to Sell More Guns... Especially the Big Ones like Lockheed and Raytheon... Now that ESPER is the Secretary of Defense, all of a Sudden His "former" Corporation, Raytheon is Bidding on a New and Improved Death Machine... Well, Isn't that Special... and tRUMP just Vetoed a Bill preventing the USA from selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, the people that Caused 9/11... There is no possible way that the War in Yemen is a Threat to the Safety of the USA... It's Just a way for Lockheed to Sell more Stuff... and if Those People Over There Die, THAT'S Not our problem... WHAT IF the people that make and sell weapons simply got a different job?

I have found that it's better to NOT be a part of the Military Industrial Complex. I did Evil for a Living for about SIX Years working for the Pentagon as a Defense Contractor... Then, one time when I got Laid off, I took a NON-DEFENSE job... and Never worked in the Weapons Business Again. It was an accidental career change but.... It Worked...

Did you Notice that Police Suicide has increased in New York... and France... What is going on? Is the Brainwashing wearing off and reality sneaking into their consciousness? and they don't like what they see???

A better Plan is to WAKE UP! It's Fun, It's Free and Everybody's Doing It! I have noticed that there is a groundswell of Internet Based Peace Activists... The Shift Network... The Aware Show on Television... Black Lives Matter... The "Never Again" Students from Parkland High School where Children were Murdered by an Insane Gunman... Bioneers... Democracy NOW! TV News... OCCUPY... ACT OUT! People protesting in the Streets of Moscow, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Hong Kong... Extinction Rebellion... Bernie Sanders... Bill McGibbon and the 350.org... Greta Thunberg and Children refusing to ignore Climate Change... It's a TREND... Remember, every time you fill up your gas tank you are (in effect) strangling Greta... A simpler way is to stop all that driving around... and ESPECIALLY stop Flying in Jet Airplanes. Those things are Ecological Disasters... Is it a "Strange Coincidence" that Boeing is having trouble selling their 737 Max Airplanes? For Safety's Sake... Don't Fly... Could it be that The Universe is Trying to GET OUR ATTENTION? Could THAT be what's Going ON?

2020 Is clearly the end of the Republicrime Party. Old White Men are going to have a very difficult time winning any elections due to the fact that MOST VOTERS are NOT Old White Men. It's the Dawn of A New Age, People!

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How to Snuggle Canada Legal Weed into the USA... Go for a walk... or... Cross country ski...

Take a hike... Have a driver approach the border from the North and Let you off... Hike to the USA... Have the same driver pick you up and take you to the customer...

Do not try this at home... Forbidden by Prohibition Laws.

"You'll Never Walk Alone" by Rogers and Hammerstein sung by Gregory Vanderlaan.

https://youtu.be/XuKHt_XKkaQ 

A heroic Ballad from the Musical Carousel. Famous for being sung by the fans of the Liverpool Football Club... and they perform on a Pink Floyd song "Fearless" from the record "Meddle." This one is sung acapella because it's simply too difficult to play on the guitar... 

Chords and Lyrics to "You'll Never Walk Alone" one of the greatest songs ever... and part of the Pink Floyd song "Fearless" as sung by the Soccer Fans.

You'll Never Walk Alone

          C             
When you walk through a storm
            G
Hold your head up high
      F         C           G       Gm
And don't be afraid of the dark
       Dm           Bb
At the end of the storm
        F    Dm
Is a golden sky
         Bb     Am    G   (F)   E
And the sweet silver song of a lark
     F               E7
Walk on through the wind
C                    D
Walk on through the rain
              C         Em         F       G         
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
     C        C7
Walk on, walk on
      F            D
With hope in your heart
            C Em  Am    Em     G
And you'll never walk alone
        C Em  F   G  C
You'll never walk alone

Headwaters Forestwalk. Virtual Tour of the Elk River Trail in Eureka CA

Redwood Trees, Banana Slugs, Water... It's 5 miles to the Old Growth Forest... Bring a Bicycle.

You may be asking, 

"Where are the Photographs of the Old Growth Redwoods?"

Well, I would have to walk on this trail Five (5) Miles 

before I get to that part of the Forest. 

The photos shown here are the first 1/4 of a Mile...

These are Second Growth Redwoods.

They were Logged a Hundred Years Ago. 

A person on a Bicycle may explore this Forest Furthur.

On the weekends, Families with Wheels visit the Park.

Baby Buggies, Skateboards, Wheelchairs, Segwey People Movers...

That's the way to explore... FUN!

Back to the Parking Lot.

Leaving The Headwaters Forest.

For Reference: Phase of the moon on
the day of my journey to the Headwaters Forest - FULL