SAN DIEGO—It being the Martin Luther King holiday,
many people in San Diego had a chance to recuperate today from the disappointing
Chargers loss before their return to work tomorrow. I practiced my nature
photography by trying to catch a dove doing something interesting on a light
standard across Aedan Court from Sandi, Shahar and Shor's home.
Later, Shahar and I spent part of the day walking through two sections of
Mission Trails Regional Park. First, we took a loop trail that brought us
down to the grinding rocks by the San Diego River; later we took a trail that
took us through grasslands to an overlook above the Old Mission Dam.
The first part of our walk took us from Father
Junipero Serra trail down to the San Diego River near the
old grinding rocks. We saw a family picnicking there, a scene that may
have been similar (save for the
style of dress) to ones during Kumeyaay times. The river, or more
precisely a stream, was comparatively
fast moving to days when I have seen it almost sitting still, discouraged by its
journey from the mountains
toward the sea. If you look closely at the rocks in the third row, left picture,
you can see the depressions
made by years of acorns being beaten and ground by Indian. The tree next
to it may have given them
shade. Shahar walked ahead on a trail that provided us vistas of
mountains, and then a view towards the
visitors center of Mission Trails Regional Park. We then drove to the
grasslands area, where the long
bridge for State Route 52 provides a corridor for wildlife to pass from Mission
Trails to Miramar Marine
Corps Air Station. That view began the grasslands portion of our walk,
seen below:
Grasslands Walk—The trail leads past grinding rocks, the use of which Shahar
simulated, then rose to
a point overlooking the Old Mission Dam. On the way back, we saw two women
on horseback, and soon
thereafter the bridge leading back to the urban reality of our
lives.
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