From Visalia to LA

The first photo is of the enormous American flag waving over the meadow at Fort Tejon where we stopped and had a boxed lunch.A fascinating place with several old buildings, gopher holes and is used by schools to recreate how living at the time this was set up was. some where i have a pamphlet on it, not really organised yet.
A bit further on the next photo was taken from the bus as we traveled on to LA and showed the wild flowers and californian poppies on the hills, not sure what the purple was sage perhaps and what the terrain looked like. The yellow was I think daisies and there should be some orange at the top which were poppies.
The next is of Hashi, Lauren and John on our walk around the hidden staircases and roads behind the Hollywood Marriott where we were staying, I will come back to this walk later as I took lots of photos of gardens and houses. Lots of Aussie plants in the gardens and others that I have here.
The last is one of the panoramas in the La Brear tar pits museum, this is an incredible place where heaps of animals, no dinosaurs it was later than that, were found in the tar pits when they started excavating them and it was all left as a park and museum right in the heart of Los Angles. Absolutely fascinating. this is a large sabre toothed cat, the teeth were enormously long, on a huge short faced bear.
Hashi is an Australian married and living in LA who I had done some walking and sketching with on line and who I had contacted and she was so good, took us around and introduced me to a fascinating book called Walking LA its hidden secrets by Erin Mahoney which taught me a lot about LA from just reading it, a book worth knowing about. Hashi's blog is on my side bar. Lauren is her absolutely delightful step daughter. the walk we did was walk no19, Whitney Heights and Hollywood Boulevard.