Saturday morning we drove out to
Kitayama Brothers to pick up our Gerbera And Go order. It's a fundraiser for Friends of the Santa Cruz State Parks. The back seat of our car was absolutely filled up with enormous Gerbera plants. This is how the rolling fields that are right next to the ocean looked as we drove in, so beautiful with the mustard in the foreground.
We got there around 11 am and it was rather foggy as we expectedl. We could barely make out the twin stacks of the
Moss Landing power plant in the distance.
It's very rare for me to go to the beach and not take my shoes off, but in this case it was too cold. Those are my Pantone color of the year(Viva Magenta)
Cariuma sneakers with a pair of great socks that match that friend Jaye gave me.
The beach was pretty densely populated with these jellyfish-ish blue critters,
velellas.They really were a quite brilliant blue.
I was pleased that there weren't so many of them that they stunk, that happened to us on a visit years ago, it made it hard to spend a lot of time hanging out on the beach.
We could just see barely see Santa Cruz.
The hillside dunes had so many wildflowers, it was really beautiful. I used the
Seek app to figure out the names. This one is European Searocket a non-native in the mustard family. Can be considered a noxious weed.
This is of course, California Poppy, duking it out with the Searocket.
This one was so cute and growing right at sand level, the flower cluster would have fit in the palm of my hand easily, it's a native called Pink Sand Verbena.
Sage and poppies.
This is my favorite picture of the day for obvious reasons.
And of course, just as we left, the clouds lifted and it was brilliant blue and warm. I love seeing the cloud reflections in the sand.
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