Palo Alto Foothills Park

We went to Palo Alto Foothills Park yesterday afternoon. We were actually trying to go to the Pearson-Arastradero preserve, but ended up here instead. It was fortunate SC still has a Palo Alto address on her driver's license, otherwise they wouldn't have let us in.

There was a pond full of fuzzy stem plants (and 3 canoefuls of Boy Scouts). And ducks.

SC thought I had a particularly awkward shooting pose. I'm planning on sending the film to Snapfish for processing, so it'll probably be a few weeks before we find out how those pictures turn out.

I thought this hill was pretty interesting - trees and brush on the left, yellowed grass on the right. Is it the sun? This photo was also taken in HDR mode on the iPhone - the colors became muted and there's a halo around the hill, but neither the bright sky nor the dark leaves got washed out.

It was pretty awesome how colorful these were. 

I used Windows Live Photo Gallery (what a mouthful!) to stitch together four photos for this panoramic. The software's not bad; I think the problem here was the auto-exposure settings on the camera.

And as we were heading out, we saw this deer carcass in a clearing by the road. I hope it was mountain lions.