A beautiful day in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A nice day for a walk in Briones Regional Park,

just east of the Berkeley Hills.

The hills are greening up,

the air is clear,

the sky is blue,

a lovely day to be outside!

We hiked along the valley floor,

but then got the bright idea to walk “just a little way,” up toward the highlands,

destination for the newts that migrate from Berkeley to the ponds of Briones…

If the newts can climb that hill, certainly we can, too?

A few other people around…a few hikers, bikers, horseback riders, people with strollers…

a lovely day to be outside!

Lots of corners on the trail…

lots of places where we could have turned back.

But….we actually kept going, all the way to the top…

What a view…what an expanse

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Really…

a beautiful California winter day,

blue skies, fresh air, green hills, migrating newts,

and a few of us out there wandering around, too.

A lovely day for a walk!

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Link to a good site with photos and descriptions of previous and scheduled hikes in many San Francisco Bay Area parks, including Briones Regional Park: Winehiker Witiculture, Spring Serenity in Briones