Rattlesnakes Prent [sic] Here

I did notice the little dot? Spot? Something? above the "e," but that didn't really help "unconfuse" the matter even a little. It bugged me just enough that I swung around for a second look. Besides, I needed a pic, since whatever followed after the rattlesnakes was, maybe, the most interesting thing I would see on the mornings' ride.

And trust me on this, there was no lack of interesting things on this mornings' ride, starting off with the low clouds - the tops of the mountains severed clean away, as if the Queen of Hearts had proclaimed, "Off with their heads!" The wash was perfectly quiet, though the porta-pottie, and the large bin was all the evidence needed to know that the annual clearing of brush has begun. Slogging up the switchbacks to the Heights Trail where the Broom is in its full majesty and almost hampering forward progress. The feral fig trees were very leafy, though the only fruit in evidence were on the perimeter branches. Just a hint of that figgy fragrance today. Next, one of the few places where the monkey flower blooms dependably every year, its pale orange blossoms a compliment to the penstemon's purple. There should have been many bees at the avocado groves where the trees are in full bloom. At the Cucamonga Canyon overlook a group of mtbers collected and set off along the route I had just taken. Up and over the dam, down the wash, and right were the wild trail turns tame is where the home-made rattlesnake prent [sic] sign was hung.

Marah macrocarpa

the broom of the Heights Trail

outer limits of the figgy forest

mimulus and penstemon along the Heights Trail

Cucamonga Canyon overlook

Scott Scale

the wild Cucamonga Creek Trail

Ah, I see now, that little thing hanging above the "e" was a very tiny "s" and I could finally understand what was being expressed - rattlesnakes were not "prent," They were not "bent," nor even "for rent;" nope, they were "present." At least they might have been had the morning been sunny and warm. The rest of the way down the Cucamonga Creek Trail was uneventful.

Along the PET, I happened a glance over to where clearing and grading around the Sycamore Inn shows where one of the office's more recent projects is in the early stages of construction (plans have not even been finished yet). Contrary to the speed of that project, there does not yet appear to be any movement on the site of the Tom Thomas Memorial Plaza yet (though, I believe, plans were approved long ago). Once around the farm and oak woodland at Pomona College, a few minutes worth of a baseball game, long enough to watch one Sagehen player hit the long ball with two runners on, increasing their lead to 5-0 after three innings against Whittier College, the last game of the regular season. Then it was up to Pitzer College, looking over at the encampment of protesters. Nearly noon now, but all was quiet.

A lot to see on one morning bike ride. Hope you got out and saw a lot as well.

i see they made these full-fledged crossings with ramps and detectable warning tiles

last game of the regular season at Alumni Field, Pomona College