Showing posts with label Wildflower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wildflower. Show all posts
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
New Bloom for a New Year: Dirca Occidentalis (Hiking Edgewood)
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What better way than an afternoon's Bloomin' Hike at Edgewood Nature Preserve?
Can you believe the Leatherwood is already in bloom?
A good omen for 2013, if ever I saw one.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Mariposa: The Time Travellin' Spud (Hiking Edgewood)
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With This Native Darling
Mariposa, as I bet you know, is the Spanish word for "butterfly". That was what this beauty's petals, apparently, made some early botanist thing about when they first saw this late spring/early summer flower.
On my morning study break, I took a time travel jaunt back to the middle of the 18'th century. There I found that the native Lamishan (an Ohlone people) think it's equally fanciable as a taste treat. The group I met up with were digging up the bulbs of this (as we'll as some of the other local Calochortus). One of the women told me that her cousins up valley usually boil or roast them. Her folks, however, like them fried. The results looked, and tasted, much like what I do with a friendly spud.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
And yet I've always preferred wildflowers
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Edgewood Park Wildflowers, San Mateo County, San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S.A.
I double-checked Jane Austen's original Sense and Sensibility. Marianne didn't actually say this, as she did in one of my favorite movie versions. But I'm sure she was thinking it.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Globe Lily, Calochortus albus (CA Wildflowers)
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I spotted this fairy-friendly flower in Edgewood Park, San Mateo County on the San Francisco Penninsula
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