even MORE scenic...

IMG_8739, originally uploaded by beckeyz.

here is a shot with the rocky cliffside thing in the background. It provides some pretty nice shade late enough in the day - but it doesn't do much around noon. A bunch of birds have nests in holes in the rocky cliffside thing and they were flying all over the place. I'm guessing (and seriously guessing, I'm no nature expert by a longshot) that they were purple martins. Whatever they were, they were feasting on something in the air because they were flying back and forth madly all day between their cliff home and the trees.