Saturday Afternoon Hike
Guessing that these are chipmunk holes since I saw a couple of the critters along the trail earlier.
The following pictures are of the view of the city from the trail. Los Angeles is so spread out and flat!
The skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles are on your left.
A close-up shot of downtown L.A.
You can see the tall, commercial buildings of Wilshire Blvd.
A close-up shot of the Miracle Mile, which is about 3 miles away.
Another wide shot spanning from downtown across to Century City.
It was a slightly cool, cloudy day which made it great for the hike. We only made it half way up the trail though. I am slowly admiting to myself that both Jesse and Penny aren’t as young and spry as they used to be (they are 11 and 7, respectively). Penny actually made the hike pretty miserable because she had one of her “fits.” Every now and then, for reasons unknown, Penny gets into a frenzy and tries to eat everything in sight. Now, it’s normal for dogs to eat grass now and then, but Penny not only goes after grass, she’ll gulp down leaves, twigs, weeds, roots, stalks, and even dry, rough stuff like those things that look like wheat stalks. They’re all too tough to be chewed, so she ends up swallowing stems that are as long as 12 inches or more! She gets very persistent about it and it’s the only thing on her mind; I end up having to drag her away from bushes and brush areas while she make these awful hacking and choking noises as she’s trying to get the plant matter down. I’m sure more than one passerby on the trail thought I was somehow abusing my dog!
I basically spent the entire hike, about an hour and a half, holding Penny by the collar to keep her next to me. This didn’t stop her from trying to dive and yank towards the bushes every 30 seconds. She is very strong and it was miserable trying to keep her from pulling us into the brush. My shoulder and lower back are aching from the effort! I also had to stop numerous times to reach down into her throat and pull something out. She was still crazed during th walk home and even yanked hard to try to get close enough to the fern our apartment building has in the lobby! Ugh! I don’t know why she does this and haven’t found anything online about it. Thankfully, it ony happens maybe 3 times a year, but she sure did ruin today’s hike! 
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Tags: hollywood, los angeles, Outings, penny
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