The Holler is surrounded by thousands of empty acres.
It has many oak groves, and permanent and seasonal creeks running through it.
900 of these acres are set aside as a permanent nature preserve, and many more 1000’s of acres are still free from human development.
There are no hiking trails or public access, but we live adjacent to the preserve and hike it several times a week.
The Holler was first settled in the 1890’s and consisted of 2,700 acres. It was a working ranch for much of its history. Crumbling fences and old ranch dirt roads remain. We hike the dirt roads, and game trails, which are everywhere.
This is the lower pasture below our house, and this is where we access the preserve.
Since people are not here, The Holler is full of wildlife and has an entirely different feel from hiking in parks that people frequent. This natural ecosystem is unique for over-developed Southern California.
We see oodles of tracks, coyotes, bobcat, cougar, raccoon, but no deer. There are no deer because there are too many predators for them to survive. There are lots of kill sites and bones scattered around, but I will spare you photos of these, even though I have them.
And of course there are hundreds of birds! Cheers to you from the still wild Holler~
Definitely a rarity for SoCal. You are fortunate to have access to such pristine wilderness. Is it managed by a Conservancy or is it private land? And it is now so green – rain helps!
In summer it looks entirely different, dry, but the trees are green and the creek keeps flowing which of course attracts wildlife in parched SoCal. We have been having rain, not lots, but still steady and it is so very needed! The state owns the preserve for now, and is negotiating with a conservator, but so far no decision. I have heard a rumor that several hundred more acres will be added to it.
I love hearing good news!
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I was wondering what time of year they were taken!
These were all taken since our recent rains, in the last month.
It’s amazing and beautiful!
Awww, thank you Linda & cheers to you <3
What a beautiful place!
It reminds me of Cali 50 years ago!
Maybe most places 50 years ago! 🙂
Good point! Lately in southern New Hampshire, great swathes of trees are being cut down to make way for more housing developments and strip malls.
Oh no! I’ve been to New Hampshire several times and I’ve always thought of it as being so beautiful. I hope there will still be some nature left.
So far, the North Country has remained mostly as it was. (My husband and I make periodic sojourns up there just to make sure.)
Good! Maine and the northern New England are some our favorite places. Peace.
My parents lived in New Hampshire. Beautiful. Maine is stunning too…..
Yes!! I hope they stay that way. 🙂
That is so sad!
Exactly!
What an amazing location you live in, Cindy. I think how lucky you must be to live in an area where they are still signs of wildlife.
Right on your doorstep too. As Eliza said, it is so green.
The wildlife is everywhere, we follow tracks that are just made, but the critters are smart and elusive too. They see us, but we often don’t see them!
That’s fantastic! Nothing like living among nature. It’s a blessing. 😊
It is indeed. It makes nature loving people happier! <3
Couldn’t agree more. 😃
Amazing 🙌
I am happy you enjoyed & thank you Nidhi!
Welcome😊
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That place looks so beautiful! Amazing photos.
Ahhh, so kind of you & so appreciated too!
That looks like a truly wondrous place. SoCal has several surprising natural preserves. One place I visited, in 2013, which had few other visitors, is Carbon Canyon Regional Park, Brea-just west of Chino Hills State Park. It has Orange County’s only stand of Coastal Redwoods.
You are right, SoCal does have these amazing pockets of nature preserves. Smart people have been working for a long time to make this happen. I didn’t know about about Carbon Canyon having redwoods! That’s amazing. I want to go! I have lived in Cali all my life, but she never stops surprising me! Thanks for telling me.
Nature at its best….beautiful!!
Thank you so much. I cherish our wild places <3
It looks so beautiful. It must be so wonderful to walk all those trails and see the many birds and wild animals.
If you love nature, you would love the experience. There is something quite different about exploring a place people don’t frequent.
The road less travelled….awesome 👍🏾
Oh how fabulous! I am green from a rain of envy. My twenty-seven years in my “Winnie,the Pooh Hundred Acre Wood” were the happiest of my eight-one years., And that was tiny compared to your wilderness. Each season brings such a variety of wild flowers and fascinating weeds and changing landscape and new treasures. We had a cold clear rock bottomed creek that had coral fossils from when Tennessee was under a sea. Holding something that old blew me away. We camped out and hiked and took jeep rides at night to see the Great American Horned owl in its perch. It had at least a five foot wing span. We had a lonesome bobcat, nothing predatory larger than those. Wonderful memories. Think of me when you are hiking or riding. Do you have horses?
Oh my, your memories sound incredible! I can tell they just poured out of you. Nature gives us so much joy because we are an integral part of it. I want to go back in time and travel with you to see the Great Horned Owls. We have two who frequent our roof. We hoot back and forth and they skim my hair in the dark when they tire of me and want me to go inside! We don’t have horses, but are zoned for it. I would love to get miniature donkeys.
Such a beautiful place
Thank you! I am happy you like it.
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So kind of you and so appreciated too! Thank you~
How wonderful: to see it; to be able to access it; and to live next to it.
It has been ten and a half years now that we have lived here, but it still feels new to me. Now I don’t enjoy going to civilization which is what we call town.
What a gorgeous area – especially after rain! You made a brilliant decision to settle there. To be able to hike freely where there are now no people but you is a great gift! Undisturbed wild life is always a wonder. Blessings on your acres ; we would all love to visit!
Oh I would love for you to visit! I hope you do! It is a remarkable place for SoCal. It is like a hidden wild pocket. It reminds of what SoCal was like when I was a child. Hope all is well with you and Marion.
Gorgeous landscape so lush and green <3
Green because we have had rain!!!! Hooray! In summer, it is dry and only the trees are green.
Well grateful you were not on fire <3 Mike is up by the Paradise fire
It’s so beautiful. How wonderful to live nearby. 🙂
Thank you Lynette. It is special because it is still wild. <3
What a magical, peaceful place you live in Cindy. Do you still own the 2700 acres? How far away are your nearest neighbors? Thank you for giving us a peep at your paradise I would love to walk along those trails with you looking for the wild life,
No we don’t own 2,700 acres! I wish!!! The original ranch was 2700 acres back in the 1890’s. We live on a orchard adjacent to the original ranch. There are houses scattered around the preserve perimeter, but not many, and each is on many acres. We actually live somewhat close to people by Holler standards, but still they are far enough away to have total privacy. I might actually see a neighbor a couple times a year at most.
Sounds idyllic
The suburbs can’t hold a candle to it. I know. We used to live in them.
Idyllic was the word that came to my mind as well.
It is like a time capsule, preserving a chunk of early Southern California in its original state.
oh so inviting.. great pictures…
So happy you enjoyed & have a wonderful weekend <3 <3
What an absolutely fabulous place to live! Untouched by man. May it stay that way forever! <3
Amen! I seriously hope it does <3
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What a wonderful location!
Thank you. It is wild and wonderful!
Simply magical.
I rarely have envy for other people’s homes, but yours is glorious.
Please enjoy for all of us, and please continue to share these fabulous images.
Awww, you are such a kind person. Thank you Sheila & cheers too~
What a magnificent playground you have nearby, Cindy. You must absolutely love living there. 😃
Awww, thanks much. I like the fact that there is this little hidden away place that is like the California I remember as a child, before all the development ran amuck, and I love living with the wild ones.
An absolutely place!
So pleased you like it!
A little slice of heaven on Earth you have there in your Holler! I think I would love hiking there too.
That hawk was lovely, as are all the oaks, and wonderful green grass. I’m loving our green hills. Winter is the best time for them en mon avis.
Thank you, and yes indeed spring, fall and winter are the best seasons. Summer is dry, but the trees are green.
You live in a paradise. 🙂 🙂
Thank you. It definitely grows on you, and you become part of the place without even realizing it.
How fortunate you are, Cindy, to live near the Holler, a nature preserve, which is totally unspoiled by human development!
Thank you Peter. It is a bit of natural wonder in our lives, so of course, we feel quite protective of it.
How wonderful you live in such a beautiful setting, Cindy! Amazing photos!
Ahhh, thank you so much Terri & cheers to you <3
Cindy, once more–thank you for the beautiful photographs!
Thank you more for being very kind you Charles. The world needs you.
You are welcome, Cindy.
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So beautiful. I think you live in paradise.
Alison
You and Don should come down. It’s a bit of under-developed SoCal, that somehow escaped human notice and destruction. I love living with the wild ones, even though the really smart ones, evade me. I only see their tracks.
Oh I’d love to. Maybe one day . . . . .
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It’s gorgeous there. I never saw those parts of your area. Think I need to get out more. Hiking there would be wonderful. Sad about the deer though.
I would love deer to be here, but I am glad they aren’t. This seems to be a last south end, of SoCal, predator hold out. I am sort of amazed to be living here.
It’s an amazing area!
Thank you Marlene <3
Its really good that such sites are protected from human intervention. It is the need of the hour.
It is indeed. We, and wild places, need protection from our species.
True
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What a wonder that so much land remains undeveloped! I hope it remains that way – green lungs and places for wildlife are important.
As you so very well know! Thank you. We have to try and stop humans from being so harmful to their home.
Beautiful scenery 🙂
Thank you. It is home <3
Then you live in a beautiful place 🙂
A beautiful landscape Cindy. 🙂
Thank you.
Beautiful.
Thank you John and hope all is good with you.
Well, thank you. Just returned home from a Nat Geo evening presentation by Bertie Gregory. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=bkddG-5orc4 Nature is wonderful. Save the planet!
Amen brother!!! I was just telling my husband I want to go back to Vancouver Island. We have been several times, but it is never enough.
It’s so beautiful. It doesn’t look like California to me! Too green, but that may be the season. I hope whoever buys it is a good neighbor.
Yep. You are right. It doesn’t look like most California images, but this is what undeveloped, rural SoCal looked like 50 years or so ago, in winter, after the rains came. Thankfully no one can buy most of it. The state owns it, and it is designated as a permanent nature preserve.
Thank goodness. What a lovely place.
Thank you! I hear rumors of more acreage being set aside, but time will tell…..
It’s good to hear about this wild and wonderful place. Thanks for the pictures. Wishing you rain!
Thank you, thank you! We have had rain so every critter is happy, but we need more!
Cindy, how wonderful to live next door to such a stunning landscape shown to perfection in your photos.
Your kindness is much appreciated Sheree <3
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Thank you sweet lady & happy weekend <3
So beautiful, and there for you. What makes you different is you actually go and enjoy and experience it all. How many live beside this beauty and never take that walk. More photos please!!
This is an interesting point. We never see people hiking here. There used to be free range cattle and an Ankole Watusi bull which may be part of the explanation.
A bull will do that!
And he was an African bull with about a 9 foot rack of horns!
That does not sound much fun, but it must have been amazing to see.
Sounds like a wonderful place 😊
You would like hiking in The Holler.
I bet I would 😊
I did not know anything about the Holler, thank you for the beautiful photos. It’s certainly worth a visit.
Thank you. It is a little time capsule of undisturbed Southern California.
as I look out on a rather tired looking back garden (one of your yards, Cindy) and compare it to the Holler, it looks a little in need of love and, well, a bit of sunshine too. It will perk up come March – daffodils and crocuses are poking through already – but still, is it okay to admit to one tiny weeny tinge of envy. PS are any of your animal raptors – bobcat etc – an issue for you or are they more scared of you when you’re out than you are of them? I assume it would be different for domestic pets who would be fair game?
When I first moved here, 10 1/2 years ago, I was seriously afraid of the predators, rattlers, scorpions, black widows and free range bulls. Now, I photograph all of them! Laughing….. We hike with bear spray, a marine horn (for wild domestic dogs), and a golf club. We only had to use the marine horn twice in all these years, both due to charging pit bulls. It works like a charm. Our cat’s vet was viscously mauled by a group of pit bulls and nearly died. The wild animals avoid us, but we are prepared, just in case. I am most cautious of abandoned dogs that become feral and hook-up with the coyotes, because they lack respect for humans for good reason, I am sure, since they were abused and abandoned by irresponsible dog owners and are now feral.
Wow. I kinda thought you’d say ‘na, it’s all fine’ but that’s serious stuff.. love to see pics of the scorpions and spiders some time. Just sayin!
I definitely have posted the black widows, the rattlesnakes, the coyotes, you can google my name and whatever critter you want to see. I haven’t posted the scorpions, so thanks for the idea!
It is beautiful. So much greener than I expected.
I was struck by how green it was as well. When I visit my daughter in San Diego County, everything is so brown.
Visit her now. We have had rain, and the brown has turned into an emerald Oz!
It is green in winter and spring due to the rains. It browns up by early summer.
It is green for a window of time, during the winter rains and into early spring.
What a wonderful place in the world and what a blessing to be so near all this
beauty.
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It is definitely a wonderful place to be if you enjoy nature more than civilization, which I obviously do, and so I imagine, do you!
Thank you for sharing your images, these are truly beautiful.
You are truly kind. Thank you!
Heaven on Earth! So great the place has you who not only truly appreciates living there, but is a great photographer who captures its beauty so well for the rest of us to enjoy!
You are such a wonderful person Halim. Thank you and so great to hear from you! Hope all is well with you.
wunderschön, dein Beitrag, hab einen schönen Samstag, mir ist es viel zu kalt, Klaus
Schones Samstag mein lieber Freund Klaus <3
schönen Sonntag wünsche ich
Frohe Sonntag <3
Beautiful landscapes.
I am happy you enjoyed them!
Tranquil place!
Indeed, especially when the coyotes aren’t killing something!
It is the part of life in the middle of nowhere. 🙂
Yes. Exactly, and I have learned, over time, to love it with a passion. Thank you Alexander for knowing.
Oh my! Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos, Cindy!
Thank you more for appreciating them Jill & cheers to you!
These are lovely scenery. As I have seen many beautiful pictures of birds from Holler, Holler is also a heaven for birds and wild lives too. I am glad to learn there are efforts to preserve spaces/lands from human development.
Thank you and yes, we need more wild spaces protected.
It looks like paradise!!! 😀
Keep it quiet, dear Cindy! Someone might get ideas and turn it into a hell for nature and all the wildlife there!… 🙂
This is quite true, which is why I give it a fictional name and don’t post on it often. Access is difficult and trespassing is illegal. Hunters are not welcome and the sheriffs are called if they dare to trespass.
That sounds encouraging 😀
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Cindy… what glorious views. It’s such an enchanted place. Thank you for sharing it with us. Hugs on the wing.
Hugs flying back to you Teagan & gratitude too <3
I’m going to think of my enjoyment of this beautiful place through your photos as a tribute to nature poet Mary Oliver, who recently passed away.
Thank you Liz. I grieve the loss of her.
It looks beautiful and peaceful!
It is, even at night when the coyote packs howl!
Beautiful area Cindy. You are so lucky to have it so close to your home.
Yes. If you love open spaces and nature, this is a great place to live.
You make me envious! 😉
Awww, don’t waste any time on envy, into each life some rain must fall.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful holler home Cindy. I would love to live there or a similar place with undisturbed nature as my neighbor! As you mentioned, I bet it looks and feels very different than most parks. Holler hugs!
I hope you do eventually live amongst nature Brad. It is good for the heart, mind and soul.
Indeed. Thank you Cindy.
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Cindy this is a lovely area to live near. How did it get the name “Holler”?
Leslie
I named it that in jest.
I picture great birds swooping down with their calls….
That is exactly accurate! We live on a mountain so they often fly by at eye level.
and what a sight that would be…
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Beautiful.
Merci beaucoup mon ami <3
It’s great to be surrounded by so much preserve. I love the blue skies and sunshine. I live in the middle of thousands of acres of forest. Love it, but sometimes I miss the big sky. 🙂
Sounds idyllic. Where is your forest?
The coastal range of Oregon. It’s mostly timberland. Not much old growth, but miles and miles of nothing but trees. 🙂
Yes. Gorgeous. We were very close to moving there and still are thinking about Bend.
Bend is lovely. Not rainy enough for me, ha ha, but a fantastic city.
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What a stunning place to live, Cindy! Thank you for sharing The Holler with us. I now have a clearer vision of you and your camera hiking these trails to bring us up close to Nature!
Thank you Debbie. It is a very different sort of place to hike, no formal trails, no people, and lots and lots of wildlife watching from the shadows!
And I thought the Adirondacks were unique. How wonderful to be able to live in “The Holler.”
Enjoy!
Wally
You should stop by and I’ll take you on a hike. Bring your snake boots!
I’m on the next plane, I’ll eco camp for about a month. That should be enough time to get a feel of the place. I love natural rivers, shallow then wide, walk across. I love undisturbed land and making sure it stays the way the Indians left it. Have a great day. 🙂
You would love it here. We wear handmade Chippewa boots that are water and snake resistant and cross and recross the streams multiple times on each hike. I love it too <3
Where did you buy them? I would love something handmade that reminds me of my Cherokee heritage.
Here is a link to them. They are expensive, but so worth it. They are fully water and rattlesnake resistant. My husband and I have worn them constantly for 10+ years and they NEVER show any signs of wear. They have good grip in the soles and they have protected me from snakes and all sorts of other nasty things. They are completely comfortable once you break them in and they are great looking.
https://www.bootbarn.com/chippewa-womens-snake-boots/050T75.html?dwvar_050T75_color=7319#gclid=CjwKCAiAsoviBRAoEiwATm8OYGlazqOwzrzr4A49zbKd08OWBKbNZ0DHqe8lKs0osESAGK0Glxx3xRoCBRgQAvD_BwE&ef_id=CjwKCAiAsoviBRAoEiwATm8OYGlazqOwzrzr4A49zbKd08OWBKbNZ0DHqe8lKs0osESAGK0Glxx3xRoCBRgQAvD_BwE%3AG%3As&start=1
Thanks I’ll check it out. 🙂
What a gorgeous place to live!! Could be straight out of a novel.
Ohhh, I would love to read the novel!
Trees have such individual characteristics. They always make for interesting photography. Great photo of that … hawk? of some sort?
Thank you so much, and I agree, trees have such character, and you are correct that is a red tail hawk.
Very nice picture of the hawk. So clear!
Thank you very much.
Lovely…
Thank you Bette & cheers!
I love your opening statement that the Holler is surrounded by thousands of empty acres. And then you go on to write about the life and joy that are contained in these same acres . What a wonderful way to remind me that we must integrate our lives with the glorious world around us.
Thank you Rebecca <3 10 1/2 years ago I worried I made a mistake moving here, I wasn't used to living amongst all the wild things. Now I could never happily return to living in civilization and the wild critters are my best neighbors!
I’d love to live next to a nature preserve, so that I can go hiking without having to waste any gas. Thanks so much for sharing these lovely photos with us 🙂
If you ever make it out this way, we’ll take you hiking and tracking.
Hopefully I will make it out that way! I’ll let you know if I do; thanks for offering to take me hiking.
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Wow, and thank you! I needed that.
It’s -17C and going down to -35 w/ wchill tonight!
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Yeeks! That is soooo cold! I recently listened to this climatologist talk about the polar vortex when it splits twice, and then, rarely splits three times, which is has just apparently done. It means very cold weather has flown to where you are. Love to you Resa and stay warm <3
You’ve captured a serene place that is away from it all.
It gives all of us, living here, great comfort.
Wow! How fortunate you are Cindy to live on the edge of nature! We share that wondrous experience here in Virginia although we are on the edge of only a 700 acre tract. Still, there are bob cats, turkeys, foxes, bears, and deer.
And I know Dor, that you and I truly love the critters. They basically, are the nicest people <3
makes me happy
seeing your wide
open space 🙂
Awww, your poem made me happy <3
It looks like a paradise to me, Cindy. Just you and nature. Gorgeous photos!
Nature is our kindest friend <3
Indeed it is, Cindy!
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A paradise for sure – you are one lucky woman!
Thank you Leya & cheers to you!
A happy place for birds and many wildlife animals! 💖
Yes indeed and they make me happy <3
#9 Very fine bird – and photo! RH
Grazie Mille!
Diana, you are so fortunate to live near such natural beauty. Happy hiking!
Thanks much & cheers!
What an idyllic place to call home (unless you are a deer!). Beautiful.
Yes, at least the deer are smart enough to stay away!
So beautiful, hope it stays the same.
The critters and I hope so too!
What a beautiful place to live!
Thank you, we need more undeveloped preserves.
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Thanks much my friend & have a wonderful week!
What a fantastic place, Cindy, we would love to live like that <3 Pawkisses for a Happy Day🐾😽💞
Beautiful, Cindy! Happy home 🙂 🙂
So inspired for nature’s wake of our day, Cindy!!❤
Thank you!
You are really blessed to have a piece of heaven like this at your back door, Cuz. I’m jealous! ……..🐾
Love to you Paul.
💜 Right back to you Cindy.
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Such green colors for S. CA! – Oscar
Yep, it bursts forth in winter at The Holler. All these plants in dormant fecund earth just grow and grow! It is gorgeous.
Wow, you’re so lucky to have this near you. Looking at your photos, I just want to plunge into it.
Yes. You should put on your snake boots and come along. It is definitely not a public park. The critters control this place and they watch us from the thickets.
It’s beautiful and looks a lot like it could be a part of Scotland. xxx
It is only green like this a couple of months of the year, when the rains come. It is more like South Africa in terms of vegetation the rest of the time, but the creek always flows, even in the parched summer, which keeps the wildlife here, and this green corridor of living oaks and sycamores thriving like a green thread by the water.
Your description could be a poem; it is a metaphor for so many things in life: “but the creek always flows, even in the parched summer, which keeps the wildlife here, and this green corridor of living oaks and sycamores thriving like a green thread by the water.”
Yep.
Thank you,
very much.
I think in prose.
Words line up.
And tell me,
how I feel.
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Thank you. xxx
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Just wow! How lucky you are to live next to this!
It took some getting used to, 10 1/2 years in, I am used to being here, Iove it, and could never ever live in the suburbs or city again. But it is definitely not for everyone. Lots of people would not like it. I’m glad I am not one of them.
You are so fortunate to live in such a beautiful place. Looking out over all that gorgeous landscape must be heavenly!
Thank you! It is so different to live out here, but now I wouldn’t live anywhere else.
Such a gorgeous place. Thank you for sharing this with us, Cindy.
Thank you much for being you Robert. I am blown away by you <3
Hi, Cindy. I can see why you love this place. It’s a bit of paradise. Enjoy your hikes this week!
Ahh, thank you. I like being places where animals put people in their place. It feels safer to me.
Yes! That’s the natural order of things, not the other way around.
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Awesome and beautiful land! Perfect for Wolfie to dance and play in!
So, when are you and Wolfie coming down? I can make him howl. I did it with my friends two wolves, and it puts the coyotes in their places! (You think I am kidding, but I am not).
We’re on our way Cindy!😂See you soon!😀🐺I’m sure Wolfie will be very happy to howl for you….HOoooooooOOOOwwwwWWWWLLLLL!! See?!!🐺😀
What a paradise! 😍
For you and I, any place where nature has a chance, is just such. Be well my friend <3
Your photos of The Hollar are just as beautiful as all of those you’ve shared and taken while on all those awesome wonderful trips taken abroad and in state. I have been busy but not so much at writing. So, wanted to stop in and say, “Hi”. Take care and God bless, Cindy.
God Bless you sweet lady <3
What a beautiful place! Isn’t it hard to leave on your trips? (Kidding. The trips are likely made even more enjoyable by knowing what you are returning to.)
The last photograph–a great gard-bird looking out for all the little lives in the Holler. I know he has to eat, but still it appears that he is fiercely, almost passionately, protective.
You are so prescient. The hawks watch us all the time, they accompany us on hikes, along with the hummingbirds. It has been 10 1/2 years now that we have lived here. They seem to accept us as a non-harmful part of their ecosystem. They seem to watch us, know us, and greet us when we return from a long trip. We have a very long and steep driveway. As soon as we drive down after we are gone for a long time, they are are close in the air seemingly greeting us. I always feel happy seeing them, because I am back with the hawks.
When I am home, they fly super low by the windows and make me get up and let me get photos, and they let me get close too, when they alight on trees.
When I see them in the air, I intuitively know they are here, and I feel better.
Wow! Thanks for adding that. It is so good to hear stories about that kind of ritual, a communion not often available, a gift from above.
Where exactly is this incredible Xanadu? Your photos are wonderful!
This Xanadu, with no Kubla Khan, is hidden away in a rural part of Southern California.
Aah… once of the most beautiful spots in the world. You are very blessed!
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How you know where and how to live and go and take great photographs! Thank you for sharing them with us!!
Thank you much more for your very kind appreciation.
Beautiful Cindy, and this sure sounds like the kind of place that I would dearly love 🙂
Yes, I know you would and the birds would love you!
Oh my goodness, what a wealth of wildness. My heart leaps to know there are 900 acres of wilderness in southern California. And how fortunate to live next door. Great post, Cindy, thank you — and happy hiking!
Thank you my friend. Thankfully, SoCal has a surprising number of often unknown preserves sheltering wild critters.
What a great area to live in, with what amounts to your own private nature preserve!
Yes, for people like us, who love nature, it is ideal.
Beautiful place to live and enjoy. It is a blessing.
Love it Cindy! If you added some vineyards some of those photos could have been taken here. <3
Cheers to French vineyards everyday!!! <3
creative as always ???<3
Just like you sweet friend <3
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Love back to you <3
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Thank you so much & cheers to you!
I am absolutely entranced. I too live in Southern California, and clearly I do not know this part. I live in the Inland Empire, in Yucaipa. Do you have a ranch or a farm, and I would love to know the story of how you came to live where you are. It is absolutely beautiful. Loved the photos of some part of the wildlife too.
I know Yucaipa.
California is amazing isn’t she!
There is more diversity contained here in every way, than anywhere I have traveled.
The greatest thing about blogging, for me, is meeting people like you.
Wonderful to meet you, and look forward to getting to know you.
Thank you so kindly, Cindy, and the feeling is definitely mutual. Hugs, Anne
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Thank you kindly, Cindy.
<3 <3 It is my native state.
Regularly I get the impression you already live in the paradise.
Like Anne Copeland I wonder how you came to find such a beautiful place to live?
Awwww, so nice of you Marcus. Thank you & be well my friend.
Bonjour ou bonsoir mon amie et belle CINDY
La mélodie du cœur
Celle que l’on entend qu’une fois et qui nous transporte si loin
Au delà des nuages et au delà des paysages
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La mélodie du cœur ne s’invente pas elle s’écoute
Elle est si belle
La mélodie du cœur
Elle nous transporte, fait pousser des ailes d’anges dans le dos
Qu’elle te transporte au paradis là ou tout est éternel
Que ce weekend à venir soit une explosion de bonheur avec tes proches
Bonne journée ou belle soirée
gros bisous
Bernard
Merci beaucoup mon ami Bernard!
Big moments
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This looks beautiful! Thank you for sharing! 😀
Thank you more for your thoughtful appreciation <3
Loving that image of the shady grove of trees! 🙂
It would be fun to hike The Holler with you!
Sounds like a lovely spot! We still are dark and brown over in New England!
But spring is going to burst forth for you so soon and it will be so beautiful!
Definitely true! Although Winter can be very beautiful too! Just can be long and brown sometimes.
My parents lived in New Hampshire so I know.
What part of New England are you from? I’m in Nottingham, NH, where I’m looking out my window at a wet, brown day.
Oh! I’m in Massachusetts and take many Adventures to New Hampshire!
It’s a beautiful place.
Beautiful shots. Thank you Cindy.
Thank you more for the kind appreciation.
I want to be a bird! 😁
Me Three!!! 😉
Three is fine too!!
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