Hampton Creek

Bryan, the kids and I decided to do some desert sauntering at Hampton Creek. We haven't been here since the fire engulfed it and the floods destroyed much of the drainage in the canyon. That was many years ago. You still can't drive too far up, but it's nice to get out and walk around and see what recovered from the fire. We had beautiful, cloudy skies for a week which was great.

Flood evidence all around the scars and skeletons of burnt trees......

The surroundings looking dramatic as we walked around.....

May rain brought out a bouquets of June wildflowers......

"Come to my parlor" said the spider to the fly  :)

It was about 5:30 and the clouds made it seem later in the day. Since we had time, we decided to head over to Hendry's Creek too. Ava was thrilled to practice driving on the dirt roads the whole way :)
The "Country roads, take me home" song swirled in my head as we bumped along.