{"id":237,"date":"2005-05-02T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=237"},"modified":"2005-05-02T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T17:07:10","slug":"sanborn-park-wilder-ranch-fauna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/02\/sanborn-park-wilder-ranch-fauna\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanborn Park, Wilder Ranch.  Fauna."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went on a couple of walks over the weekend, one was Sanborn Park off Black Road near Saratoga, the other was in the Wilder Ranch Open Space above Four Mile Beach on Route One near Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/mossroot.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Green mossy gnarl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/slugside.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The fabled banana slug.  Note the tiny black eye-dot in the eyestalk.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/slugface.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;ve traveled here from La Hampa to help you.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/levelwater.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got into this idea that you could take a series of pictures where the frame is horizontally divided into two.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/levelfalls.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The bumps on the lip of a waterfall obey a gnarly class-four cellular automaton rule.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/levelcloud.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s always something uplifting about a cloud sitting on the crest of an upsloping hill.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/dinotail.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>On the Wilder hike I came across a really big lizard.  I was so close to him that he froze, and I had time to get several pictures of him.  Love those scales, love the colors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/dinohead.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Who says dinosaurs are extinct?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/beetle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>You see a lot of this particular kind of beetle on the hills by the ocean in Cruz.  Very sleek.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/mshill.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I took along the most recent couple of pages of my <i>Mathematicians in Love<\/i> manscript.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/snake.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>One more Gaian ambassador appeared, a tiny snake sunning herself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/cruzdreads.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Back to the Union cafe in Cruz, got a blurred photo of hippie dreads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went on a couple of walks over the weekend, one was Sanborn Park off Black Road near Saratoga, the other was in the Wilder Ranch Open Space above Four Mile Beach on Route One near Santa Cruz. Green mossy gnarl. The fabled banana slug. Note the tiny black eye-dot in the eyestalk. &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}