Last weekend's rainy weather is nowhere in sight; this weekend was sunny with temperatures pushing 80. Winter is over here in southern California. (Make that "winter.")So with a beautiful sunny day on our hands and nothing else to do, we decided to visit the Eaton Canyon Natural Area. The canyon has nature trails and lots of animals; on our short walk today we saw a rabbit, woodpeckers and several other birds. There are normally lizards out and about, but they seem to rely more upon their calendars than the weather and are apparently still hibernating. As the sign indicates, rattlesnakes can be found here as well, but they also seemed to be in hiding. Our greatest worry was poison oak, which (we believe) we managed to avoid.
A hike of just a few hundred yards from the parking area brought us to the arroyo, or wash, where melted snow comes through the canyon. There was a lot more water than we were expecting, and it was really cold, but that didn't seem to interfere with Tessie's enjoyment of it one bit:
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