A hike with Danny

Danny and I took about a 10-mile, four hour hike on Saturday in Orange County's Aliso and Wood Canyons Park. It's a huge (4,000 acres) park right in the middle of a heavily developed suburban area. It was beautiful and just what we needed to clear our minds after a stressful week.
Here we are demonstrating our skills in hairstyling and photography at the same time.

Here's Danny at about the point where we turned around to head back. You can see those hills in the background and the canyon we walked through is to the left.

This is the first rattlesnake I have ever seen. There were signs everywhere warning that they were present, but those types of warnings are pretty common out west. Sure enough, though, we were walking along this road when I looked up and saw this guy very slowly crossing the road ahead of us. He's headed from left to right. If you look very closely at the end of his tail you will notice it is kinked because of his rattle.

He didn't rattle at us or appear even the slightest bit interested that we were there. In fact he didn't speed up to get away from us or slow down to check us out. Just kept slowly moving along. Sorry I didn't get a better picture but this is about as close as I cared to get. If you want a close up picture of a rattlesnake you'll have to get it yourself.