Murphy Ranch: Nature, Graffiti, Intrigue
Between the multi-million dollar houses of the Pacific Palisades and Will Rogers State Park sits Murphy Ranch where truth and myth blended together.
Between the multi-million dollar houses of the Pacific Palisades and Will Rogers State Park sits Murphy Ranch where truth and myth blended together.
“In a few months the wonderful flowery vegetation is in full bloom and by the end of May it is dead and dry and crisp, as if every plant had been roasted in an oven.” –John Muir
Starting east of Oxnard and encompassing the Santa Monica Mountains from the Malibu coast to the 101 freeway is the Santa Monica National Recreation Area.
Though I and my fellow hikers still had our to-do lists and times to keep, there was an invitation to just be.
The next wave of flowers are bursting forth
An article from the New Yorker
Nature Garden at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
Between Crenshaw and La Cienega Blvds. run one of the more ‘rural’ roads in the LA basin