Faithful readers will recall that Friday I awoke at the Anchor Inn in Crescent City, went to court, and departed for a hearing in Eureka. As my sweetheart and I left the city we stopped for a picnic lunch at the overlook on 101 as it climbs out of town going south. It was a gorgious day, and the day before had been too. Here's a shot from the beachfront park.
And our last view of the city.
And the sun in the morning in Alderpoint, Saturday. Quite a contrast.
At the overlook I prowled around the nearby vegetation, eager to get a chance to use the supercloseup setting on the camera. The berries were a regular shot, the flower a supercloseup. I'm not really good at supercloseups and have to delete about half of them because they get blurry.
Anyone out there know what kind of berries these are? There were lots of them along 101 as it passed through the redwoods. Lots of tiger lillies too (see prior posting.) It was really a beautiful drive until we reached the smoke from the forest fires.
But still, it was a wonderul morning. Little did I guess that 8 short hours later I'd be returning to get my left-behind computer. Will this happen after the rapture? People popping back into existence on this earth here below just for a second to pick up something they forgot?
Happy trails!
Lulublue
Ed: Might that be some type of sumac that has the berries?
I don't believe datura grows up here. It's quite common in Southern California. There's a related plant up here that's grown as an ornamental. I believe it's common name is Angel Trumpet. The wife put some in our back yard.
Some years ago, local TV News reported on how datura was a hallucinogen. They showed a clip of some local Angel Trumpets. The place happened to be a house I worked at. The night of the news broadcast someone came in and cut off big chunks of the plant and hauled them off, presumably to try and get high off of.
Don't know if the Angel Trumpets posses those qualities. Jimson weed does and became locally popular with some kids where I lived after it was read about in The Teachings of Don Juan. I tried it two or three times. Heavy duty stuff, but dangerous as it affects your nervous system, as I recall.
Here's the wikipedia entry for datura. I see they don't differentiate between the ornamental up here called Angel Trumpet and the one that grows in SoCal. The one up here has reddish orange flowers and grows ten feet high, or more. The one in SoCal has white flowers with purple fringes and grows low on the ground.