The above photo is what I looked at for the 4 days I sat in the spa at John's dealing with my sciatica.  You could do worse.  Below is the old Fair Oaks Bridge which is now strictly for pedestrians and bikes.  This is a few miles upriver from where we are living.  The shot below is looking East from the same spot from which the bridge shot was taken.

 One hot evening we drove up to Larry and Mary Kaye Young's house for dinner.  Felix liked hanging out around their pool and playing with Chester's (their golden retriever) toys.

 I am a little surprised by fuel prices here.  California has always been more expensive for fuel than the rest of the country because of local taxes but for some reason, here diesel is the cheapest, whereas at home it is the most expensive.  What is that about?  The shot below is a formation of dried clay along the American River Parkway about a half mile downriver (and on the other side) from where we are living.

 If you look carefully (click this shot to see it full size) there is a turkey up on the roof of the main house.  It was early morning and there were three of these galoots wandering round when Felix and i went out to get the paper.  Two of them flew away when he got closer than their comfort zone but this one was lazy and just flapped her wings a couple times and hung out on the roof.

The shot below was actually taken on the old orange Fair Oaks Bridge which I posted earlier in this group.

 Felix like everything about Faye and Jay's house in Aptos.  A pantry with shelves he could inspect was very appealing and nice cold stone floors definitely hit the spot.

 This shot was Felix attempting to look completely innocent after I caught him rooting around behind Jay's storage shed in old construction materials.  I suspect he ate a few items before I caught him.

 This shot was from our first Santa Cruz walk.  I got fried.  My nose peeled for close to two weeks.

 If you enlarge the photo above you can see John's house peeking out through the greenery up on the bluff.  The shot below is an unfortunately blurry one of Felix playing with Ginger, his new girlfriend.

 One day we did a rather longish hike to the Nimbus Fish Hatchery and saw some pretty interesting scenery along the way.  I am not sure what this concrete monolith is left over from but it is in the woods next to a very narrow horse trail.  I kind of liked the graffiti.

 As you approach the hatchery you can see the man-made river drop that encourages the salmon to use the ladder that takes them up into the hatchery where they lay their eggs.  It is not very busy at this time of year since they won't start running until considerably later in our visit.  Still, it is an interesting place to visit.  They post informational signs along the trail that flanks the river that explain a lot about what is going on here.

 Below you can see where the fish ladder begins.  The metal walkway actually passes over it, so the fish swim into the concrete channel and then jump up the series of rises until they are up in the large pens where they lay their eggs and ultimately die.  The eggs then are cared for, hatchlings fed until they are ready for release, and then they are directed back into the American River from which they head downstream to San Francisco Bay and ultimately out into the Pacific through the Golden Gate.