Visit to the Ranch.

Nancy and I were both working today, but we were invited at lunchtime to go out to the Hitselberger Ranch for a quick look-see. The place is owned by our hosts and run day-to-day by their youngest son Joe, who showed us around today. The ranch is located a few miles from the beach house up one of the local canyons. The scenes in these small valleys are beautiful; few folks have homes back there, there might be more barns than homes, really. The low areas between the pine-covered hills are mostly used as pastureland for cattle and horses; some have some sheep or goats. It may be a couple of weeks before we have another day as nice as today, and I'm looking forward to going out in search of paintable compostions.