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save yourself I was weary from my life at sea level, and so took to the mountains a couple weeks ago for a writing retreat offered through San Francisco State’s Sierra on Highway 49 between Sattley and Bassetts Nevada Field Campus. Yes, there is such a thing (isn’t that cool?), and it’s [...]  Sure, it has a beard, but I’d argue otherwise: I had to find a good excuse to share luscious photos of the porn stars of the plant kingdom, and thus, the bearded iris. Comparable only to orchids in their botano-eroticism, the folds and depths, delicate crinkles and bold strips of hair (on some, others [...] Ah, my first night of Botanical Illustration class, taught by the exceptional Bay Area naturalist, environmental educator, and artist John Muir Laws (known as “Jack”). It was an evening of tearing apart common florist shop blooms (namely Asiatic lilies and alstroemerias) to study their reproductive structures and advertising skills (i.e. petals). Some notable things [...] |
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