Beginning - Point Reyes Wildflowers

For my first post, it seemed appropriate to start with flora and fauna from the San Francisco Bay Area. Yesterday, we went to Point Reyes National Seashore and hiked the short and easy trail at Chimney Rock. The weather was perfect in the high 70's. And, although we did not see any whales off in the distance, the wildflowers were lovely.

Here is a view from the Pacific side of Chimney Rock looking down at a beach with seals (probably harbor seals, but perhaps elephant seal pups?).

The view on the other side of Chimney Rock looking towards Drake's Beach with Douglas' Iris (Iris douglasiana) in the foreground.

Cow Clover (Trifolium wormskioldii).

A yellow coastal form of the California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica).

It was a perfect day at Point Reyes and it became even more perfect with a stop for beer and oysters -- raw, barbecued and Rockefeller -- at The Marshall Store in nearby Marshall. We sat outside by the roadside looking over the water in Tomales Bay and counting our blessings that we live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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