Mountain views and a few California poppies, all from a lovely day’s walk in central Mendocino County on the last day of April. If you’re on the full view website here, you can look for “Mendocino County” as a “tag” further down, and select it to view past Mendocino posts which explain a bit of what you’re seeing. Orr Hot Springs is tucked deep in a canyon in the photo above and some of the photos below.
These are all taken on the Ukiah-Comptche Road in Mendocino County – a road that’s not very long but runs from nearly sea level (well downhill of the shot just above), to a reasonably high crest in the coast range (a bit further above the images below), before dropping down to Ukiah in its narrow valley. At that bottom, Lake Mendocino on the outskirts of Ukiah.