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Slow November Days Close to Home

·San Marcos, California·#hiking#sunset#nature photography#San Diego#november
A bird perches on a signpost, with yellow-green bushes and distant communication towers on a hill.

Slow November days close to home, and this one went the way most of them do lately — up the trail toward Double Peak in the late afternoon, no plan beyond walking until it got dark.

A hawk was sitting on the trail post near the dog-bag dispenser and didn't move as I came up on it. It stayed put longer than I expected, so I did too. The brush on the hill has gone that dry orange-brown it gets by November, all the way up to the antennas.

Stayed out past sundown. The valley to the east had already gone hazy blue by the time I turned around, and the houses in San Elijo were switching their lights on below me on the walk back down.

Sunset sky with a blue to orange gradient above dark, brush-covered hills, a distant valley, and a winding road.Sunset over a residential neighborhood built on dark hills, with distant mountains under an orange and blue sky.

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