The odds of being attacked by a lion in Palo Alto...

... are close to nil, I know. Still, it gives one pause to be walking alone off trail in a quiet spot in Foothills Park and come across this...

Bambi's skull was on a stump nearby...
I never did see the perp, but I did see some impressively persistent bay laurels uphill...

This Jim brush (Ceanothus oliganthus var. sorediatus) will be looking mighty fine within about a month...

... and this chaparral currant (Ribes malvaceum) already is...