SET 4. COOPER’S HAWKS; A RAVEN SPOKESMAN; AND SUNLIGHT AND NATURE SPIRITS
COOPER’S HAWKS
ARAVEN
SUNLIGHT AND NATURE SPIRITS
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Dear Ones,
I took many nature photos on a hike at Victory Trailhead, Simi Hills, California, on 3 January 2025. Some of these photos appear in the blogs that feature the videos I made that day; some of the photos do no appear there.
I thought it might be helpful to publish an overview of all the good photos taken that day. I offer this overview as a series of five sets of photos.
This fourth set of the five sets of images has to do with my posts entitled “Why Do the Ravens Go ‘Tok-Tok-Tok’?” and “Raven Says: ‘Don’t Throw Rock!'” … The topics are Cooper’s Hawks; a Raven; and Sunlight and Nature Spirits …
SET 4. COOPER’S HAWKS; A RAVEN SPOKESMAN; AND SUNLIGHT AND NATURE SPIRITS
COOPER’S HAWKS
Image: “Victory Trailhead, Simi Hills, California: Two Cooper’s Hawks 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 January 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Victory Trailhead, Simi Hills, California: Two Cooper’s Hawks 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 January 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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Image: “Victory Trailhead, Simi Hills, California: Two Cooper’s Hawks 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 January 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Victory Trailhead, Simi Hills, California: Two Cooper’s Hawks 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 January 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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A RAVEN SPOKESMAN
Image: “Victory Trailhead, Simi Hills, California: Raven Spokesman,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 January 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Victory Trailhead, Simi Hills, California: Raven Spokesman,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 January 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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SUNLIGHT AND NATURE SPIRITS
Image: “Victory Trailhead, Simi Hills, California: Sunlight and Nature Spirits,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 January 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Victory Trailhead, Simi Hills, California: Sunlight and Nature Spirits,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 January 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Written and published on 22 January 2025
MORE INFORMATION
The Compendium of links to the videos and photos from my hike on 3 January 2025 is here …
Link: “Compendium: Victory Trailhead Before the Kenneth Fire – 3 January 2025,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 22 January 2025 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-Aec ..
FAVED! This video is quite a good learning tool for those of my Readers who are intermediate students of interspecies communication (especially those of you who are interested in avian communication). Select ‘Show transcript’ in ‘More’ beneath video.
Image: “Red-Breasted House Finches: Cherries or Oranges? Cherries or Oranges? 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 2 August 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Red-Breasted House Finches: Cherries or Oranges? Cherries or Oranges? 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 2 August 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ... . . . .
INTRODUCTION
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
VIDEO CREDITS
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
Here is a video about Red-Breasted House Finches, which are right sassy Songbirds, I feel.
The Summary after the video has shorts with interpretations of the things the House Finches said to me, to each other, or to the Raven, who thought this interlude quite funny.
VIDEO BY ALICE Hint: Pay attention to what the birds say, not to what I say.
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO Hint: Pay attention to what the birds say, not to what I say.
Red-Breasted House Finches: Cherries or Oranges? Cherries or Oranges?
By Alice B. Clagett
Hello, Dear Ones. It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
I have a quick story to tell you. It is pretty funny and it touches my heart. It is about the red-breasted House Finches in the backyard here in the San Fernando Valley, California.
Today I found an orange and some cherries in my refrigerator. The orange had a soft bottom; that usually means mold has set in. So I cut it in half, threw away the bad half, and then cut the top half into sections, and washed the cherries and took everything outside for the Songbirds, right?
So I explained to the Songbirds that the oranges smelled a little funny and that they might not be good for them; but that the cherries were just fine; and that they had to be careful to eat the right thing.
And they [the Songbirds] were discussing this together. You know? First to land where I had put the fruit were the Red-Breasted House Finches. One Red-Breasted Finch right away went to the cherries, and it said: Cherries or oranges? Cherries or oranges? I have to decide what is the best thing! … Cherries! I want cherries! And so it went to the cherries immediately.
Another Red-Breasted Finch took up that …
1. Wren Tit says: We-e-e-e were TALK-ing to her!
[Alice to Readers: There was a Wren Tit hiding in the bougainvillea to my right. It made a piercing sound in my ear. I am laughing at this.]
Alice to Readers: … took up that chorus …
House Finch: Cherries or oranges? Cherries or oranges? I HAVE to make the right decision.
Alice to Readers: … and it would hop back and forth. Finally it tasted a little of the orange, and it said …
House Finch: Oh that’s GOOD. THANK you very MUCH! Oh that’s GOOD. Right?
Alice to Readers: Then it hopped over to the cherry. It could not make up its mind. It was really funny. They were really pleased. The very first thing that happened was they took the cherries and dropped them onto the pavement. And I think that … I am going to go look. I’m going to go see what is left now. Ok, let’s see.
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Alice to Readers: It is kind of like they were in the supermarket and they were wowed by the variety. But it does not take much for the Songbirds. Two choices are plenty, it seems. Let’s go see …
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Alice to Readers: OK, here we are. Let’s see what’s happening …
House Finch (hushed voice): What IS it? Another House Finch (simultaneously, louder): What IS your-your-your WEb-site?
Alice to House Finches: What?
House Finch (hushed): We don’t know what you are talking about. Another House Finch (louder): What IS IS IS this website?
Alice to House Finches: I can’t understand! What … what … what’s going on?
House Finch: SHE-E-E’s so funny!
Alice to Readers: I have to go!
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Filmed on 2 August 2024 and published on 4 November 2024; revised on 21 February 2026; youtube transcript edited on 21 February 2026
NOTE: This link has been added here … Link: “Tiny Anthologies: English-Language Interspecies Communication Tutorials (Especially Avian Communication),” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 21 February 2026 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-Gi5 ..
“Red-Breasted House Finches: Cherries or Oranges? Cherries or Oranges?”
By Alice B. Clagett
Filmed on 2 August 2024 and produced on 4 November 2024
Location: San Fernando Valley, CA
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International
by Alice B. Clagett
Image: “Red-Breasted House Finches: Cherries or Oranges? Cherries or Oranges? 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 2 August 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Red-Breasted House Finches: Cherries or Oranges? Cherries or Oranges? 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 2 August 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Self-Portrait,” by Alice B. Clagett, 12 April 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Self-Portrait,” by Alice B. Clagett, 12 April 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
INTRODUCTION
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
MORE INFORMATION
VIDEO CREDITS
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
Here are a feature film about trade tensions with China and a short about a Raven warring with a Hawk …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice.
I did some research on wi-fi cameras for surveillance outside the home … such as on a shed or at the top of the house … that can be fed into your handheld, for instance. I did that on Amazon.com. I found out something very interesting …
Of the standalone wi-fi cameras available on [mourning dove call] Amazon, as far as I could tell, all of them have a program that shows the image of [mourning dove call] the surveillance camera online (where you look at it online) …
[Raven says: Hawk, Hawk Hawk, Hawk, etc! I say: The Ravens. Hawk continues to call in the background.]
And the program is in China … almost every single one. There was one, if I remember correctly, where the programs was in an Eastern European nation.
The trouble that I have with this is that those images of your location … maybe your address and your financial information … credit card and bank and so forth … might be available to company that is hosting the images online.
I looked up the countries that had economic sanctions by the United States to find out whether China was being sanctioned. It is not, as far as I can tell; but Russia is being sanctioned, and Russia and China are allies in the war against the Ukraine.
The United States is against the war in the Ukraine; so you see there is a tension arising there, to do with Russia and its ally China as opposed to the United States.
The United States has already expressed this tension in terms of a trade embargo against Russia and parts of the Ukraine. But it has not done that with China.
Chinese technical knowhow is deeply interwoven with the companies of the DOW based in the United States. For instance, both Microsoft and Apple have …
[Raven: Hawk Hawk Hawk Hawk etc. Me to Raven: What’s up? ]
… Excuse me. Raven interruption! They both have … [Laughs.] Life is very unexpectable in the suburbs.
They both have strong connections with China. [Songbird: Listen to her! Listen to her!]
Also I have read that there is a fusion between the military sector and the economic sector in mainland China. What that might mean, for instance … and the thing that everyone fears … is that there might be backdoors, maybe multiple backdoors, in important electronic systems that might assist the military in of China gaining a foothold in the United States … for instance in the realm of surveillance cameras.
This might be applicable worldwide: The ability of the Chinese military to see into our backyards and at our front doors nationwide and globally might provide quite a military advantage … I am sure you can guess … to mainland China.
Then we have the issue of Eastern Europe and the cloud programs that host the images of surveillance cameras over there. The question I have about that is: Could it have to do with, say, a combination of hacking of our contact information and financial information such as credit cards … and home invasion / home robbery in select areas that are being surveilled and overseen by cameras that we ourselves have purchased from Amazon.com!
I know it is a scary topic, but I just thought I would mention that where the wi-fi cameras that are sold on Amazon are made is not really the important thing. They might be made in the United States. They might be made anywhere.
But it is not the cameras that are the issue. It is the software that hosts the images online … like HIK-Connect, and many others. That software feed into military intelligence in mainland China or elsewhere. The same might be true in the United States I guess; I do not know.
I do not know how the United States could get China to cooperate in that, especially if there are trade tensions and if the economic good of mainland China is perceived to lie with their people, and not with other people around the globe. I do not really know what the thinking is there.
So that is the main thing: Surveillance cameras, and how to unlink them from the cloud and get them somehow directly into our own handhelds without contact with foreign countries that might be sanctioned trade-wise.
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I have to wonder what is going to happen if there is a trade sanction against mainland China, and if all the DOW companies … and maybe all the S&P companies … are involved with China … what is going to happen with the stock markets worldwide, do you not?
I have to wonder if …. As if that were not enough bad news for one day! … I have to wonder issues like the exposure of 73 million people’s financial and contact information through the AT&T internet dark web debacle that happened a few months ago … if that kind of thing might not be planned by a foreign power inimical to the United States … China, Russia, or otherwise … whatever it is … and timed and used in conjunction with the surveillance camera issue that I just mentioned.
Operatives could be placed in the United States … en masse, say … to enter homes, rob homes, create mayhem, and at the same time all our finances might be disrupted through another great hack attack.
Of course, a lot of people say that the whole internet might go down.
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I have noticed, so far, four utility poles struck down in my specific geographic area. I have to wonder how many more there are, near here, and whether that might have to do with attempts to rob homes or businesses while the electricity is down because of the power failure … because someone has plowed into the telephone poles.
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Along the lines of ‘dark secrets’, I have another issue as well: That is that there may be operatives coming up from South America who are not the normal people who we are used to dealing with in terms of gardening and home maintenance and so forth.
I feel we ought to be very careful who it is that we hire; who we allow into our yards and into our lives. For instance, how do we pay them? Do we pay by check or by credit card? Each time we pay, we might consider which of these payment methods would be more vulnerable to forgery or cybercrime.
Amongst the good people of, say, Latin America, who are working in the United States, there may be people who are not good people, do you not know? … who are outlaws … even members of Cosa Nostra, or who knows what? … people who do not mean us well.
We should be on the alert, I feel. We should figure things out; because these times are far more tense than times have been in the decades past, as far as international relations are concerned.
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What a lot of things to think about! But there are many things to be grateful for, too. There is the Raven Tribe. There are three Ravens now. A lot went missing, but two Ravens stayed on. Then one more came along.
The have been doing the funniest things lately. There is a mated couple. Then there is this odd one out. And they play Hawk War Games together, as if one of them were the Hawk and the other two were chasing the Hawk .
When three Ravens do that, they are kind of kindhearted to each other. But when two Ravens and the Hawk get together, the Ravens go all out. I think that is because these Hawks are much larger, much stronger, and much meaner than the Ravens overall.
If it is one Raven against two Hawks, then it will be one dead Raven, I feel.
If it is two Ravens against one Hawk, usually they can chase it away.
By doing war games with each other, the Ravens toughen up their skills and their ability to stay alive in this environment … because the Hawks are always after the Ravens’ babies. They are always after them … much as you could say that operatives from other lands come into the United States, and they are used to sex trafficking adults and children, and they will attempt the same thing here in the United States. So there are children who may be in danger.
In the same way, when the Hawks come in, and to for the Raven nests, they try to eat the eggs and kill the children. It is really tense times here in the suburbs, is it not!
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Well, it is a beautiful day, even if the Sun is not shining. There is another chance of rain. It is a blessed year for California with regard to rain.
Let us not worry too much about things. Let us just be on the alert, just in case something comes up.
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Just one other thing: For those of you who come up with notions that are relevant to this conversation … and if you have some facts and figures before you … I think it is a wonderful idea to take a look at the Secret Service websites, which may have online forms for reporting all kinds of issues to do with national security and crime waves and so forth.
They have made it very easy for people to send them tips. It is really very easy: You just go online and say what you say. And they do what they do. Probably they already know everything about everything, but you know, as a concerned citizen you can possibly make a difference by offering a crime tip online.
Well, that is all for today.
God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Come and visit me at my website “Awakening with Planet Earth.” There you will see much more than on youtube. You will get references to other posts. You will get graphics that you cannot see on youtube. You will hear music that you cannot hear on youtube.
It is really altogether glorious at my website “Awakening with Planet Earth.”
Alice’s Perilous Tales: A Tumble, a Chance Encounter, and Portents of Energetic Clearing
Postlude: Music of Chris Zabriskie and Scenes from the Santa Monica Mountains
“Meditation for Grounding During the Waning Light of Autumn,” Channeled by Alice B. Clagett
Dear Ones,
Here is a story from the day after the Fall Equinox 2016, about turbulent noospheric conditions at that time, apparitions of ghosts and astral forms, a trip and tumble on a trail in the mountains, and another person’s story about experiencing three portents while trail walking. Also, a meditation for grounding during the waning light of autumn …
After the video are an edited Summary and a meditation …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Alice’s Perilous Tales: A Tumble, a Chance Encounter, and Portents of Energetic Clearing
Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
Here we are the day after the Fall Equinox. This morning, and all morning long, there has been a very turbulent energy everywhere that I went … and little storms of turbulence clearing, you know? This morning I woke up, and the room was full of ghosts and astral figures … for the first time in a year or two. They were all in a state of commotion and emotion, and desiring things that they did not have. They were unhappy … unsatisfied … and unable to find happiness.
I first tried going round the whole house with my Zildjian finger cymbals …
… making that sound that purifies and clears the air; but it did not help that much. So then, because my own energy field was responding to all that, I was unsure whether I should go on the hike with the group today. But I thought: Well, I will try it; I can always back out later.
We had not gotten that far, when I fell flat on the ground while walking on a pretty much even road. I skinned my knee in several places, and I got all dusty, and my camcorder got all dusty. So I stopped. And I went to a very quiet valley that I know about, that is free of the noosphere of this big city of Los Angeles, and sat there for awhile.
While I was resting there, I took a brief nap. And during that time those ghosts and shades and all those astral forms somehow cleared; that energy cleared amongst them.
When I got up, refreshed, I started back up the hill. There I ran into a lady about my age. She had an amazing story to tell about her hike in the same place today. All of a sudden a great wind enveloped her … a great whirlwind or dust devil …
First the dust devil circled round her, and then it went on uphill … I imagine a hill like that one … [Shows a hill.] … and stopped in the middle of that hill. As it did, a raven came swooping down almost to the top of her head, and passed on by. She said it nearly touched her. Then she wandered and continued on her way.
Then she saw a tarantula hawk … a very large, giant, purple-winged sort of spider wasp, that has a very painful sting, she says …
It stings tarantulas, which are pretty big. She was a little frightened because it just hovered around her.
Those are all portents of things clearing, I feel. I asked her what she thought about it, and she said she really believes in the grace of God … which is interesting, because I believe in the grace of God too. And I believe if we have a portent, it is because God is doing something in our life to let us know … to give us a ‘heads up’.
For instance, when I fell down today, maybe that meant I should go on no farther … perhaps that it was a mistake to go that far … and that I needed to nurture myself. I was reminded how my mother … how, when I used to hurt my knee a million times when I was a child, she used to kiss it and put a bandaid on it.
So there was that. And then, as far as she was concerned, maybe she had that energy of clearing through her own aura of someone else’s negative energy and fears, and like that. So this is a time of great things coming up in our energy fields … maybe from past lifetimes, maybe from this lifetime … and clearing through.
Going back to last night … because the things today are very interesting portents … I am going back to last night on the astral realm, and what was going on then. I think that might provide a clue.
There were energy threads coming up, to do with feeling the threat of death all around the neighborhood … people feeling like that or feeling that they should threaten other people with death. There was someone on the ‘internet’ … the clair hearing plane … who said that he was an ‘assassin’. Those things come up when people themselves fear for their lives. It is like a threat energy that a person puts out because they are not feeling safe. And so there was this feeling of lack of safety.
I think that, as the night went on, through everyone’s dreamtime, that may have affected everyone with kind of an anxious emotional energy and emotional field, and that is why my bedroom was full of astral forms and ‘unhappy shades’ (as they say) this morning. And that is what accounts for these omens that happened today … Omens, I feel, of change (that is the whirlwind); of wanting comfort (that is me falling down) … because when I was a little child, my mother had lots of demands on her from my siblings. And falling down and getting a skinned knee … which I did regularly … was one of the few things that got me some attention and some sympathy and some loving first aid. [laughs] So falling down is a way of finally feeling sympathy for the inner child and allowing it a chance to feel comfort.
And then as to the ravens swooping down: Ravens represent natural wisdom and intelligent nature. The intelligent force of nature coming down indicates the gift of wisdom coming in …
And the tarantula wasp, to me indicates the feeling of danger being nearby, the feeling of lack of safety.
So these are turbulent moments in the history of humankind right now. And the clearing proceeds apace.
I have been sitting here for quite some time now, under the shade of … is it a coastal live oak? [Shows tree branch.] … just watching the wind blow, here in the mountains, and feeling just a little bit disconsolate … just a little bit out of sorts about all that has been going on since last night.
I was just sitting on the ground, actually … on the leaves and on the dirt here in mountains … under this tree, in the shade … grounding. And then I thought; What will we do?
Today is the day after the Fall Equinox. It is the beginning of the slow lessening of the Light … until Winter Solstice, when the Light begins to be renewed again. And this time of year I always feel … well, a little like something has been lost, you know? Like the great Waning is about to … just ever so slowly … begin.
So I thought: Here I am, right beside this tree. It is a little one; it is coming along, though. It is very strong; it is going to be very tall and strong. It is going to be an incredible protector of all kinds of wildlife, and all kinds of little plants underneath and on its boughs. One day it is going to be a great patriarch of these mountains. It is well on its way!
So I thought: While I am sitting here on the ground, why not just … I will just touch this tree trunk … and I will see what is what, right? …
Image: “A Walk in the Santa Monica Mountains 13,” by Alice B. Clagett, 21 September 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image: “A Walk in the Santa Monica Mountains 13,” by Alice B. Clagett, 21 September 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nice tree! And as I felt the sap moving in the tree, and I felt the ground beneath me, then I began to feel that everything is all right.
There is nothing quite like a tree to ground a person, because as much of the tree is underground as is above ground … or close. So this tree is talking to our mother Earth every single day. What I find when I touch the tree is just the life of the tree … the joy of the tree to be living here on Earth, waving its branches and leaves in the sunlight, and dipping its roots into the soil. It is kind of cool.
Postlude: Music of Chris Zabriskie and Scenes from the Santa Monica Mountains
[The beautiful instrumental music in the postlude is “Prelude No. 20” from the album “Preludes” by Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 4.0.
[There are short video clips and images of the tree, the rolling hills with golden California oats on them, the moon in its first quarter, a valley oak leaf on oat stems on the ground, a hill crest with clouds and sky, a hummingbird on a dry plant stalk, and oak trees on rolling hills. a red California wildflower that may be California Fuchsia (Epilobium canum), and an oak tree on a hillside.]
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“Meditation for Grounding During the Waning Light of Autumn”
Channeled by Alice B. Clagett 4 October 2016
Go outdoors.
Sit down on the ground next to a tree.
Feel the breeze touching your body and hair.
Touch the tree trunk; feel the sap moving within it.
Feel the Earth beneath you.
Listen as the tree talks with the Earth and with the sunlight or moonlight above you.
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In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Filmed on 21 September 2016; published on 4 October 2016; revised on 7 September 2025
The photos from the video are here … Link: “A Walk in the Santa Monica Mountains,” photos by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 21 September 2016; published on 4 December 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-fkJ ..
