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About carto

Retired software engineer who grew up in Montana, went to Montana State College in Bozeman, and moved to California to work at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Carto's Logbook is about photography, travel and adventure; Mt. Maurice Times is tall tales mostly biographical; Carto's Library is about books I've read and liked.

Dry California Hills

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Walking in Arastradero Preserve, Palo Alto, Aug 2018

It’s exceptionally dry this year in the hills above Palo Alto. The trails are open, but fire danger is high.

Fall color on the trail, Arastradero Preserve, Summer, 2018
It;s a dry summer in Palo Alto’s Arastradero Preserve, july 2018
A Mushroom peeps out from a broken limb.

Cheers, Carto