summer time and the livin' is easy

Rosa nutkana

More chocolate!

Frittilaria lanceolata (syn. affins)

Things you may find in beacon hill park on a sunny day...

•  Garry oaks with hummingbirds sitting in them
•  Fields of camas
•  Erythronium seed pods
•  Deadly white camas
• Beautiful ocean and mountains views
• A chocolate lily or two if your lucky
• and a few naked old men sun tanning, which I especially didn't want to be seen stumbling upon with a camera in my hands (to be honest though, I'll suffer through the peripheral view of wrinkly old man scrotum for the site of a Fritillaria).

No naked people in this one, just camas and butter cups.

Fritillaria lanceolata

Moving in for the money shot.

Zygadenus venenosus with a ripening Camassia quamash

I heard this little guys call and was lucky to spot him in a Garry Oak.

How many crabs can you spot?

Someday I vow to take a marine biology coarse. All of the plants and animals I see in the ocean are so foreign its like some sort of crazy sci fi alien water world, So much so that every time I sit and watch a tidal zone I think "Mean while, in the ocean....". I wouldn't be surprised if there really were mermaids hiding somewhere out there in the great wide open with giant squid and singing schools of rainbow fish.

What do people do in the park?

Sitting in Beacon Hill park yesterday enjoying the camas, when some guy jumped up out of nowhere, 

"Sorry, didn't see you guys there!" he said.

"Why are you sorry?" I asked as he hurried away.

What were you doing strange surprise apology man? Masturbating? Reading Twilight? Taking pictures of yourself on your iPhone?All equally embarrassing but I guess we'll never know. At least you apologized.

Camassia quamash

mmmm...Macrolichen on a garry oak

I have no idea what this is...anyone? anyone? Bueller?
Plantago lanceolata

 More Plants! after the break...