Little Uvas Creek (Melchor Ranch), 4/28/17 by Ronald Horii
I got special permission to accompany fellow docent Cait Hutnik on a visit to Little Uvas Creek Preserve (aka Melchor Ranch). It is not open to the public yet, but is accessible on guided hikes and to docents with permission. A week earlier, I helped to lead a group of artists on a hike in the preserve:
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It was the first time I'd been there in the spring and was amazed at the wildflowers there. I came back to shoot more pictures.

This was my first visit, along with other docents, soon after the Open Space Authority bought it:
http://www.stpfriends.org/Melchor/MelchorRanch.html
I helped lead the first public hike there:
http://www.stpfriends.org/Melchor/MelchorRanch-public.html
This is what it looked like last May. It was after the peak of the wildflower season, but there were late-season flowers out:
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