Joaquin Miller Park Overlook (July 26, 2024)

 On my 71st birthday hike at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland. To represent his belief in the Ten Commandments, Joaquin Miller erected this pyramid to Moses in 1892.

River, me, Piper, Papa, and Mya in front of the pyramid. Fox and Brandy were there too. Joaquin Miller was an American poet, author, and frontiersman. He is nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras," after the Sierra Nevada, about which he wrote in his Songs of the Sierras (1871). In a fight with Native Americans, he was shot through the neck and cheek with an arrow. While a newspaper correspondent in the Yukon, he lost two toes to frostbite. He was also a mining camp cook, lawyer, judge, Pony Express rider, and horse thief. 

Mya and Piper atop another of Miller's monuments. Willoughby stands by.

Papa views Oakland Bay and San Francisco from the park's Lookout Point.

Mya, Brandy, Willoughby, and Piper at the Lookout Point.

Mya and Piper in the Lookout Point tree.

River and Willoughby with Papa and me. Fox was on most of the hike with us but had returned to the car by this time.

Mya caught a lizard.

Piper in the Lookout Point tree.