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date: 2025-05-12 03:23:55.73 +00
title: "Mastodon post from May 12, 2025, 114492718168679398"
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post_id: 114492718168679398
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took the fam to the Pulgas Temple via the Sheep Camp Trail, saw flowers, saw water, saw lizard, saw deer, saw snek, not bad for a 'burbs hike!

the first time I came out here in '17 we took a more boring route and saw none of these things save the water, go figure.


![A green sign with white uppercase routed letters hanging from a green pipe on a larger steel pole, surrounded by green deciduous, pine, and bushes under a clear blue sky, which reads:PULGAS TEMPLETERMINUSHETCH HETCHY AQUEDUCTSAN FRANCISCOWATER DEPARTMENT](./114492716647712771.jpeg)

![a smattering of papery-leafed pink flowers with yellow centers over greenery](./114492717004307094.jpeg)

![a ground covering greenery with tiny yellow flowers](./114492717377670094.jpeg)

![photograph of the pulgas temple, a (pasting from wikipedia) a circle of fluted Corinthian columns surmounted by a large masonry ring bearing the inscription "I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people" [from Isaiah 43:20]. There is a reflecting pool lined with cypress trees.](./114492717867858438.jpeg)


![a mama doe on a hillside of grass. behind the doe the brush thickens but is not a forrest, in which two others (at least) younger deer linger, unpictured but who walked by just after I took this photo](./114492731708559811.jpeg)

![a black snake about two feet long with white rings and a white belly crosses left to right on a gravel path](./114492732103247792.jpeg)

![The same snake from passing by, heading away from me](./114492732499494239.jpeg)