Jacqueline and Angel Go For a Walk In The Barranca

Yesterday Angel chose to take a walk down into the barranca. The barranca is a very nice, and peaceful place to walk. It is below street level, which helps keep it relatively quiet, and there is a great deal of plant life, so it is also very lush.

Long ago when I was a kid, the barranca was more jungle-like, and only kids like myself with a lack of common sense and self-preservation would explore all the wonder the it had to offer. It was a magnificent place that, in some places, was so thick with vegitation that it would become impassible, even on foot. But several years ago the city came through it bulldozers and lined it with cement, so now any body with a decent pair of shoes can walk pretty far along it’s banks.

However, the essence of the old barranca remains, and since I did spend many a summer day in it's cool protective flora all those years ago, I have a special appreciation for what is left of it.

So, anyway, the dogs and I walk down there sometimes, and here are a few photographs of yesterdays walk...

This is before we got to the barranca. Jacqueline questions the idea of going there. (The rocks hurt her little toesies.) Angel is a macho little guy, and is all for going to the barranca. In fact, he is usually the guy who decides we go. There is a fork in the road where you can choose to either go down into the barranca, or take the path intended for human and canine travel. Often Angel chooses the former. Angel took a wrong turn, and now Jacqueline and I will have to follow him since he refuses to come back around the tree the way he came. Jackie feels a walking stick is necessary for her walk. This is where we will be walking. As I said, it's quite beautiful. Angel contemplates many deep subjects. Once in the barranca, Jackie checks the daily posts. Together our heros explore the barranca floor, much like their daddy did some thirty-five years before. I took this picture while holding two leashes, and it wasn'y until I got home that I realized it was blurry. It had such promise as a decent picture.

Angel loves to go for walks down in the barranca. Jackie I think enjoys it as well, especially after it rains and there is a lot of water flowing through it. She LOVES to go as far up to the bank as she can, and watch the water rush by.

Check in next week for a new chapter in The Adventures of Angel and Jacqueline. And don't forget to check out the Carnival of the Dogs at Mickey's Musings, and the Friday Ark at The Modulator for more interesting animals.

Posted by Jeff at March 17, 2006 9:17 AM