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[rafqa]

Before she locks it up again, you all need to run over to sun-star-n-moon's journal and see her beautiful post on Northern California wildflowers.

And for those of us here in less northern Northern California, it's spring again, after being summer for a week and a half.

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[joebanks]

Not wanting to comment over at sun-star n moon's place uninvited, i'll say here that, that was a wonderful post! Could those unknowns above the Lupines be Yarrow?

[rafqa]

That's very considerate of you-- I hope she will read your comment here. I always consider anything public totally fair game, but then, I'm deficient in social skills. I think there is a lot of yarrow up there, you're right! it looks yarrow-like, but a little more delicate/fresher looking than the yarrow I've seen, but maybe that's just because everything around here gets cooked as soon as it blooms.

Do you have many wildflowers in Ohio?

[joebanks]

Deficient in social skills is one thing, A 51 yr old male online is another!

You think California has a monopoly on wild flowers? We have lots, i'm not always sure what is native and what isn't. I guess I need to stop worring about my sick mother and go take some pictures.

[rafqa]

Yeah, I get you. She's a grown-up, though.

No, no, I don't think California has a monopoly, only there are larger areas of undisturbed land in the west, especially up where she lives. When I think of Ohio, or Wisconsin, or places like that, I think of areas where the landscape has been totally changed in the past couple hundred years, and is also very settled. But even in Connecticut, the little wood violets used to grow up out of cracks in the sidewalk in the spring. I'd love to see any and all Ohio wildflowers, if you can take a few moments from all you're dealing with.