San Luis Wildlife Refuge
Yesterday we spent the afternoon exploring one of our family’s favorite haunts- the San Luis Wildlife Refuge, which is 7 miles north of Los Banos, California. I don’t think I’ve ever been there in the dead of summer, and we found it much changed from our usual Spring visits. Everything was overgrown so much so that the topography was almost foreign to behold! The waterways were either dry or covered in flourescent green algae. Fowl and mammals weren’t so easy to spot, as they were hiding from the heat as we should have been. (We got SO hot!) But insects and butterflies were everywhere! This sweety was kind enough to sit still long enough for me to train a lens on it. 
There are lot’s more photos from the trip up on my flickr account. Including: bunnies! turtles! that algae I told you about! And lot’s of texture/layering type shots… probably my favorite thing about the California Wetlands is how it layers; green waterways lined with purple weeds, beneath gold thistles, beneath brown reeds, beneath green grasses, beneath wicked valley oak trees, beneath a bright blue sky flecked with the largest egrets and hawks you’ll ever see!
Sorry I haven’t been around for a bit again. I haven’t been feeling well. Working on that.
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