Saturday, October 24, 2009

Visited the Tree Farm

Tree Farm in Chico Oct. 24, 2009 Tree Farm in Chico Oct. 24, 2009

Tree Farm in Chico Oct. 24, 2009 Tree Farm in Chico Oct. 24, 2009

Chico, CA, has a wonderful place that the locals call the Tree Farm.  It’s real name is The Mendocino National Forest Genetic Resource & Conservation Center.  People go here to walk their dogs off the leash.  Photographers go here to take portraits in a natural setting.  I go there to smell the woods and stroll through a quiet place.

There are lots of exotic trees from Asia and Europe, all with numbers to help you find them on the trail guide.  The paved, accessible trail borders Comanche Creek which the dogs just love.  There are wet paw prints all over.  One of the exotic patches of trees is the bamboo patch (top left photo).  It’s odd to be walking in vegetation that feels right in Chico and then blam – there’s a bamboo forest.  It’s mystical.

Fall is coming to Chico, slowly.  It starts at the top of the trees and creeps down.

When not enjoying the color in Chico, I’m stuffing felted mice for the Friends of the Library Fall Craft Faire, November 21, 2009.

4 comments:

  1. i had no idea! i gotta go there!

    karen

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  2. I remember Fall and Winter in Southern California. We alway marveled that the last leaves were not pushed off the limbs till the new leaves appeared in Spring. The photos are beautiful. Renate

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  3. Please be warned. The Nature Trail along Comanche Creek at the Tree Farm is leash only. The Forest Service is starting to ticket people with loose dogs on trail.

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  4. Be careful about letting the dogs offleash on the nature trail or letting your dogs run into the orchards. The ranger WILL give you a ticket. Learned that the hard way.

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