The Avenue Of Marmots

Paddled over to the Little Store to pick up Breakfast snack (woke up too late for usual meal!), and then back to the Creek...yesterday, left a banana behind chasing after Hawk...Banana gone, but found my fingernail clips...snacked: coffee cake, (have stopped drinking coffee, just tired of it!) (sodas too!), corn chips, cran grape....Warblers in the Fig Tree on the way...pics...Tanagers, Song Sparrow, Grosbeak, Mallard flyby, Sandpiper, by the Creek....sunny hot blue....at Lunch: sat awhile at Ozone Beach on the Cliff...Raven, Sandpiper, about...it's gotten very quiet at the Beach!....sighted Ouzel on the far shore..pic...have to check if I have previous mid summer pics of Ouzel...oh...Pee-wees wheezy call therabout....and Bear ambling behind the Cabin when I came home from work...thought to get pic with the waterproof...but came to my senses...flash only goes out about four feet!....ranger rover came around with Owl light searching....pics up from hike...all along the way out and back, Marmots here and there, usually where there were Low Boulders, but sometime out in the Meadow, and once under one of the Bushes shaped like Tops...dont know how they get that way...Lyell Canyon is a good day hike..busy as it's the Muir Trail, and midsummer problematic to get permit...where I camped next...fortunately on the out hike, rain showers and wind kept things cooled down...on another note: being around, and eating, the same foods day after day, (Last Chance's menu wears thin after three days or so, and it's been almost seven years!), there are some things I just dont eat very much anymore, like hamburgers....and some things not at all, like sodas...tonight I had pork loin and broccoli for dinner...day old pastries, banana, and apple juice for night snack....ham and cheese sandwich at lunch, and cookie...the Valley's tap water is like perfect, and that and fruit drinks is about it for drinks...this food contemplation comes from wondering what food to take on the hikes!....what I'm used to eating has a lot to do with what I'm hungry for on a hike....it's a bit of a dilemma, only so much fits in the Bear Cans!!