For a change of pace: participants in this year's California Naturalist Program, led by Grassroots Ecology for the third year. Claire Elliott, one of the leaders, kneels at the second from our left. I see Paul Heiple on the right. There was of course one more participant, shown in the shadow at the foreground: me, with a halo. The old valley oak near the Visitors' Parking Lot stands in for all the nature we will visit today. I just made it back here in time to lead the tour: One circuit of Searsville Lake is complete; time for another. 9:04 am.