I anticipate sharing some of my own wildflower photos, on this forum, over the spring.
I am posting this one first though, even though I did not take the pic. It is called a "Fairy Lantern".
It is in the Lilly family, and I have not seen them since I was a small child, in the Coarsegold and Oakhurst area, of Central California. I never knew what their names were, and so we called them "Pink curlys". They have a delicate smell. One of the flowers that I miss. IF any of you happen to FIND some fairy lanterns, well, I'm looking for some seeds. Maybe I can sprout them, and grow them in a terrarium. When you homeschool, things like that can be a school project.
Here is a link to Fairy Lanterns
There are some real cool shots around Mill Creek, in the Hot Springs AR area. I will add a few of those too.
As surveyors, we see some things that rarely do others get to see.
Nate
thanks for showing your soft underbelly
I use to see these (Lady Slipper) in the woods when I was a kid, still think they are beautiful.
Have a great week! B-)
Looks like you can get them for $6 each from Telos Rare Bulbs, but I don't know if they will grow outside their native region.
It looks like the formal name is Calochortus amoenus.
Coarsegold and Oakhurst?
That's awfully close to here, Nate.
What brought you to California?
Why didn't you stay?
Don
Coarsegold and Oakhurst?
I was born in Coarsegold.
When I was a kid, we would pick those wildflowers, and bring a wild bouquet to our mom. The "Pink Curlys" were the MOST feminine, and gracious flower I had ever seen. they embodied everything GIRL into one little flower. Exquisite, and beautiful. I saw them as everything desirable, beautiful, gentle, soft, and beyond description.
My wife is like that. I want to show her the flower she is like.
And, their smell is so soft, gentle, and encompassing, that I want it to be a fresh flower when I show it to her.
These are memories, from when I was Pre 10 yrs old. Probably more like 8 or so. I want to connect my wife to them.
I dreamed of her all my life, and now I have her, but her flower is not here... yet.
I'm dealing with it.
Thanks for the link. I'll buy some seeds.
We left Ca when I was 11, Fall of 1977. These bloom in the spring.
Nate
Lady Slippers
They bloom in late April around hear and kneed a a little Oak woods to make the "good soil"
Ken Pudeler
Coarsegold and Oakhurst?
Well, that was certainly touching, Nate. Spoken like the California boy you are.
The link was from Andy, btw.
Don
Coarsegold and Oakhurst?
I am not sure what that means... But I can tell you that since being sick, I have developed a callous, "I don't care what others think" about stuff that I did not have before. If I feel like telling somebody that I love them, well I do. If I feel like smacking somebody, well, I have done that too!
(I don't know what is up with me)
Thanks for caring!
I figger I have it made, if my wife is like one of those lilly's I posted above!
N
Coarsegold and Oakhurst?
> I am not sure what that means... But I can tell you that since being sick, I have developed a callous, "I don't care what others think" about stuff that I did not have before. If I feel like telling somebody that I love them, well I do. If I feel like smacking somebody, well, I have done that too!
Me too. My relatives and friends have been wondering what's up with me...Cause of all of the loveeeee going around lately that I have been expressing to them. :love: B-) :-$
Coarsegold and Oakhurst?
You left just before the December 1977 Kern County Dust Storm.
Coarsegold and Oakhurst?
"I am not sure what that means..."
It means what I said, Nate. I just didn't say it very well.
What you wrote was beautiful and touching and made my wife (and me) tear up at the expression of devotion to your wife.
That's all.
Don
Coarsegold and Oakhurst?
No Problem, Don. Another side effect of being sick, I sometimes say exactly what I think, in the way I think it. And, it don't come out the other side, quite that way!
Maybe I'll get those deeds plotted today.
N
