In the Silicon Valley right now the IT guys are busy. They’re busy helping us communicate without being in the same room. They’re busy working in teams from home to provide something of value as we are all sequestered in our houses practicing social distancing. Some of the Silicon Valley is working at a feverish pace to find a cure or a vaccine for COVID 19. In the meantime, other people in the Valley are trying to stay sane.

The other Silicon Valley is agrarian. The people in the IT group and the agrarian group aren’t necessarily different. I have no way of knowing if this cowboy was in one or both of those groups. I saw him as I was walking along a paved path next to Coyote Creek. In a small island where the creek splits this cowboy was putting his horse through the paces. From his actions I think he intended to either work this horse or possibly preparing him for a show, I think the former. He was working the horse to turn left and right circles, back up and who knows what else (since I’m not an equestrian I’m clueless.)

There continues to be ranch lands in Santa Clara County, some of it near by and some in the valley below Mr. Hamilton’s telescope near Grant Ranch on old Mines road. Perhaps in some parts of the country an ATV works on the ranch but here in South San Jose, the ‘ol horse is just fine. You might not know an urban landscape is a mere 10 miles away.