Beating the Brush at Loopy

It was a bright and sunny day -- good for a late morning walk at Loopy Loops.   We drove down to the reserve, but instead of entering from the parking I decided to walk down Dry Creek Road toward the winery and enter Loopy Loops from the back end.

The pups padded along the side of the road, stopping to sniff here and there.  Once we got into Loopy, Rosco led the way, choosing the trail that seem most sensible to him -- Fips following, then me.

"Gulley Forest Trail"

After beating through the brush on Gulley Forest Trail we turned right and headed down "Cathedral Oak Way"  which is the eastern portion of the Southern Loop

Cathedral Oak Way

After arriving at Lupin Meadow  [*picture] we headed back up the Center Trail to Big Pond

Big Pond

Big Pond is only big until mid May.  After that it dries up and the bed turns into gooey muck.   One of the drawbacks to Middletown is that there are not many places for Fips to swim, so we have to take advantage of the water while it's around.

From Big Pond, we cut through some more tall grass (tall for dachsies, at least) and headed back toward the parking lot where, 

Big No-Tail decided to annoy Rosco.....

P.S.  (from Rosco) Roski-the-Doggie Photographer wants to make very clear that if these fotos are  close to awful it was not his fault   but entirely the misdoings of humans who provided him with a "Dungie" camera and who then washed these fotos in some sort of pig-trough.   Roski has done his fuzzy best to tweak, tint, and unstain them.