Friends and Flowers

We took a little walk recently with good friend Dick Burns, 80'ish, former naturalist at Sequoia National Park for 20+ years. It's like going for a walk with a treatise on natural history! Mr. B knows every plant, every bird, and he's just a treat to be with.

So here he is with Scottie - two guys who carry their age better would be impossible to find.





This is sedum growing around a big rock outcropping. (I can't pretend I knew that without asking Mr. B.) The plants are tiny, tiny. Must be that the water that gathers at the base of the rocks nourishes the plants.









And this is popcorn flower. It provide the white to offset all the California Poppy bright orange/yellow that fills the hillsides right now.




It's rainy and gray, so we will be off to run errands today.

Getting ready for the studio tour the end of this month, painting, getting prints made, etc.

Life is good!