California Blue Eyes - Winter Wildflowers

Sisyrinchium Bellum

A little Iris

Blue-Eyed Grass is springing up

Beneath Stanford trees

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Las Pilitas Nursery carries them. I've visited this lovely nursery. 

Make an appointment next time you're in San Luis Obispo county.

https://www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-california/plants/642--sisyrinchium-bellum

Agave americana - In Bud

Agave Americana

in Bud

Stanford University - AZ Gardens

Fall Fennel - Sing it Gilbert and Sullivan (Palo Alto Baylands Field Trip)

Put on some good walking shoes.

Head to the Palo Alto Baylands.

Click on that Pirates of Penzance recording and sing along....

Foeniculi - Foenicula - Foenicula ha ha ha ha!

Fennel

It's just Fennel

No, I don't know if it's safe to eat. I wouldn't take a chance - especially as some of the nearby flowers are from the carrot family and look suspiciously like poison hemlock. Yah, that's the stuff Socrates drank and three hours later - no Socrates.

So just sing along. 

OK?

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Resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto_Baylands_Nature_Preserve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foeniculum

A fan of Gilbert and Sullivan Pirates of Penzance - I thought the song was called 'Tarantula' now am wondering..... Is it called 'When the foreman bears his steel'?

When the foreman bears his steel - Tarantula!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance

http://stageagent.com/shows/operetta/385/pirates-of-penzance/songs

Fall Colors: Redwood Shores (pickleweed, endangered salt marsh harvest mouse, San Francisco Bay Area)

Bay Side Pickleweed

Redwood Shores - Redwood City

Harbor for Rare Mouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_marsh_harvest_mouse

Senita People - Eat it Up - Cactus

Currently blooming at Stanford AZ Gardens

Gorgeous white flower on your right is a Senita Cactus

This was an important food for the Senita People

Cousin Martha and I hope to visit the Sonoran Desert where Senita's grow

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

https://www.desertusa.com/cactus/senita-cactus.html

Quince from my California Garden - Membrillo de California

Quince - Uno Membrillo

I feasted on you in Spain

Hala! Mucho Gusto.

The Wedding Tomato - A Black Krim

Now Fruiting- Our Commemorative  Black Krim Tomatoes *

My Rosalinda

Married - San Luis Obispo

Home to this Black Krim

* Plant Purchased at San Luis Obispo Farmer's Market
 At nearby Loma Grande Ranch, Rosalinda and Joe married