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Hi Grandma
Here's a photo of Greg, Buck and Oberon planting back
Camassia quamash and
wild onions during the Beltane gathering May 3rd, 2008 at Wolf Creek
Sanctuary, in Oregon.
Love, Potlatch
*Note: pale blue flowers of the camas lily, center of picture. Coyote
in the back ground is watering Camas patch planted last year in the meadow.
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Automotive
Traveler Magazine
Dodge Challenger Dream Drive - Day 5
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Because we were so tight on time, we
decided to press on to Tonopah where we had one of the strangest encounters on
our entire 3,000-mile journey. We headed west; I was behind the wheel of
the 1970 Challenger and as the vast expanse of the high desert unfolded before
me, I imagined how Kowalski must have felt as he savored this view in
Vanishing
Point. In the background, George and I savored the rumbling soundtrack provided
by 426 cubic inches of Hemi power. And going in the opposite direction we
passed, of all things, a covered wagon. It seems that Finisa Medrano was
spreading wildflower seeds in a one-woman effort to rewild the American West. To
learn more about her efforts, visit her web site www.pullingforwildflowers.org.
(It dawned on me that we represented opposite ends of the ecological spectrum:
while Finisa rewilds Idaho, Nevada, and California, we are consuming vast
quantities of fossil fuels.)
Excerpt from article in Automotive
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28 June 2008
Hi Grandma and Pulling for
Wildflowers,
Here are 3 photos of the latest
flowers in my camas patch, Portland Oregon.
Love,
Potlatch
(Thanks Potlatch for sharing
your beautiful "nodding onion" and camas photos)
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 Allium cernuum,
nodding onion flower buds.
I use them as a flag for the camas patch |
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Allium cernuum
flowers with
Camassia
quamash seed pods end of June 2008 |
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22 May 2008
Hi Grandma
a few pictures of camas in bloom in my Portland Oregon garden during May 2008.
Love,
Potlatch
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Camassia quamash flower early May 2008 
Camassia quamash flower early May 2008 |
Camassia leichtlinii ssp. suksdorfii blossom
early May 08
Bombus vosnesenskii - yellow faced bumble
bee
Native pollinator of Camassia flowers.
Camassia leichtlinii ssp. suksdorfii flower
early May 08 |
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24 April 2008
Hi Grandma Fin,
First Camas blossoms in
my Portland Oregon garden on 24 April 2008. I think the Camas
just loves all the rain we get in the
Willamette valley.
Love,
Potlatch
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This Camassia
quamash variety is from
Portland Oregon... 'curly leaf'. Note the Allium cernuum leaves on the left side
of picture and the pink Allium cernuum bud in the lower right hand
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This Camassia quamash variety is from the Idaho prairie.
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Here is a close up of Camassia
quamash variety from Eugene Oregon. (this is the stage grandma says you can
steam and eat like asparagus)
Camas
Bake Homepage |
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Hi... Shreevee suggested I
write you to share these images I took while backpacking. Camas
for days!
All I recall is that it was in Montana south of Glacier National
Park, north of the Great Wall in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Feel free to
post them if you like, otherwise, enjoy. - Cupcake
(Thanks Cupcake for
the beautiful photos and Thanks Shreevie for the suggestion)
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Another Passerby
Meets Finisia and "Blogs" about her
Just as we thought our adventures were coming to an end...
we passed.......a horse drawn covered wagon, on the 2 lane highway, as we were leaving Nevada. What a treat!
It's not everyday you see that. So as any good tourist would, we
turned around to get a picture, and even chatted with the wagon driver.
Turns out she was on her way to Idaho. (Does she know how far that is?) She also encouraged us not to use dead things to get us where we are going
(aka Cars) and to
check out her website. My question is, is it even legal to drive a wagon on a highway?
Check it out: http://www.pullingforwildflowers.org/
The Fearless Wagon Driver.....
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10 April
2008
Hi my name is
Des... while on a road trip down from Fernley NV, to my home in Southern
California, I saw one of your camps... I'm not sure what town it was in, but very close to Walker Lake. Since we had to get back home that night, I was cut short with time. Anyways, what I'm meaning to say, is
that... I wish I would have gotten a chance to chat with the campers. As soon as I arrived home I jumped on the internet and looked you all up. I think what you are doing is wonderful, and so respectfully
positive. While adjusting some of our luggage I had a chance to snap a shot of the wagon which I have attached along with a picture of yours truly. I hope to come across one of the camps in my future journeys, it would be a honor to converse with like minded people.
"May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warmly upon your face, and rain fall softly upon your fields..." - an Irish Blessing
Peace & Love ~ Des
Des's wagon photo is
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Photo taken & emailed
by a kind passerby, enroute to her home in Southern California
Thanks Alot, Des!! Coyote Rewilding Camp at
Schurz, Nevada
- April 10, 2008 (enlarge)
A lonely voice crying in the wilderness for Mother
Earth
while planting seeds for her Renewal, one by one along the Sacred
Hoop
Photos
of Native Plants around Wolf Creek, Oregon -
March 2008
Root
Camp and Festival
Arco, Idaho - June 2007
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