While driving the Alderpoint road on my way to court one day recently, somewhere on the descent into Garberville, near the Paradise Ranch, I saw this hillside of sweetpea flowers. In real life the colors are more intense than the photo.



And as I went to Yreka last week (17th June, I think) I drove up the Klamath canyon on Rt 96 and saw some rafters. Makes me lonesome, as the poet said, cause I'm a rafter myself sometimes. Or rather, I was. I met my sweethart on this stretch of the Klamath way back deep in the 20th century. I was an inflatable captain, she a student at the UC Extention. Today I'd no doubt be arrested for taking advantage of my exalted position of power, but then all was joy, and we've been together about 30 years now. Here's a couple of rafts racing as they paddle that last long stretch to camp.



PS She was in the adult division of the extention classes.