Anthropocene
Valley Oaks are silhouetted along the ridge. A soggy road, green with new grass, leads toward them, across serpentine grasslands beginning to be invaded by exotic European grasses, encouraged here by the nitrogen fallout from the catalytic converters in the vehicles along Highway 280. Above, another remionder of "civilization": people hurrying somewhere, saving time while spewing planet-heating greenhouse gasses. 9:25 am.