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.