Vanilla in the Camas
Path
Vanilla put on her blue coat…
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Tree
…and walked through the Garry Oak woods.
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Indian Plum
The path wound past the Indian Plum…
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grassy
…and through the grassy sward…
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Miner’s Lettuce
…and next to the Miner’s Lettuce patch.
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Sit
It is a long way…
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Tunnel
…but at last Vanilla arrived…
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walk
…at the Camas meadows.
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Buds
Some spikes of Camas are still folded up…
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blue
but when they flower they are gorgeous, both on their own…
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surrounded
…or in a raft of heavenly blue…
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Meadow
…Vanilla wishes she could stay here all day!
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Quimper Hittys 
gorgeous. Thank you
You are welcome – these are the most glorious spring wildflower in our area, and we wait for them every year!
Yes, so lovely…love that “raft of heavenly blue”…very similar to our “rafts” here of bluebells or Mertensia virginica. Catching sight of Vanilla’s soft blue coat (I got the book!) is so soothing with the pretty, natural background of green and variations offered at this time of the year.
The bluebell woods must be so lovely – we have some escaped bluebells here, but they are not native to the area. Hence they are removed whenever possible from the camas meadows, or they would take them over.
I wish that we could join her in the Camas field! How lovely!!!! Thank you 🙂
Perhaps when this is over, you may visit your relations in late April some year! The Camas meadows are a sight to behold!
We would love that!
Oh so beautiful and poetic…I feel like Becky does love “that raft of heavenly blue.” Our parks just reopened and the trees are all budding out…now if only the rain would stop…we will be able to go out and enjoy the Spring flowers.
Oh I hope your April showers will taper off soon – it will be lovely and refreshing to visit the parks again!
Such a beautiful walk! I am glad the weather cooperated so Vanilla could go exploring.
We are so glad too – the meadows are very damp when it has been raining – Vanilla would have been soaked!
how magical…the entire walk when she looks so determined and then to arrive in that vale of beauty!! Magical!!
She was determined to get to the meadows, and you are absolutely right, they are beautiful and they are magical, and very very restorative!