This is not meant to be a post with pretty photos.
I quite often walk the path along this creek about 1 km from my house. The banks are steep and the land has never been developed.
Native species are there but there are many invasives.
Put that together with all the different soil types and you have a variety of scrubby vegetation. So in these photos it shows areas with vegetation which struggles with poor conditions.
The second photo is just a poor photo. I swear that the other photos were in better focus in the camera . However it was a very gray day.