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9 thoughts on “Camas Joint”

1. it’s extraordinary how flowers and weeds can take root in the most unlikeliest of places. Beautiiful light and a well chosen POV.

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   • Thanks Andy! The light was not as nice as it looks in this processed shot, but it is what I wished it were like when I spotted this stripe of flowers. We have a tree here called arbutus which has a real liking for these kinds of spots, often just cracks, where they sprout and split open the rocks and send their roots off elsewhere. A very determined tree that is really hard to germinate and transplant.

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2. So beautiful. Lovely composition. 🙂

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   • Hi Nandini – glad you like it!

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3. Baeutiful flowers. Beautiful composition.

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   • Thank you Katherine. They are very nice flowers. Their bulbs were a very important food for the indigenous communities in the part of the world – they were maintained and harvested in large meadows in large quantities.

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     • I wonder what they are like? Have you ever eaten any, Mr E.?

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     • I haven’t. They are pit-roasted prior to eating and I understand are quite starchy. There is a danger – there is also an extremely toxic variety called death camas that has white flowers but with bulbs that cannot be distinguished from the blue. That is one reason the camas beds were so carefully tended – it was so as to ensure there were no death camas present, as well as the usual horticultural reasons of increasing and maintaining yield, and so on.

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     • Like the fugu fish dilemma!

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