Glorious Weather & Floating Abominations

The weather has been great the past few days; lots of sun and yet cool enough to walk without much sweating. Late yesterday afternoon, we decided to pay the Dish a visit. The Stanford Dish is a large satellite at the top of a hill. The area surrounding it is supposedly a Mountain Lion habitat area, and is also open to the public as a recreational area. Many people hike/jog up the hill. Some random pictures...

Strange Straw Figures at the Dish

One of the many squirrels

We wanted to walk all the way to the Dish until we realized that it was a 3.5 miles trek. We gave up and made our way to this other place called Vista Point. The drive was only 12 miles but took almost 30 minutes because it was an extremely winding road. It would have been perfect for some Initial D racing at night....

Anyway, Vista Point had a fantastic view of the Bay area. If only the drive was more pleasant...

Nice Clouds at the Horizon

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The glorious weather also brings with it new life in the form of floating caterpillars (eeeek!). I started noticing them towards the end of last quarter, and now they are everywhere! They float down from trees in the dozens on little spidery threads and drift in the wind. If I didn't know, I might even mistake them for spiderwebs. Absolutely disgusting... I ended up walking off the shaded pavement most of the time because I did not want to walk into the caterpillars.

I hope they turn into butterflies soon and disappear from the paths. Or maybe when school starts, the human traffic will help clear them. Muahahaha.