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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Sunny Days
Miracle of miracles, it's been sunny!
These were taken Sunday after our hike. Sam's parents came to pick her up hours earlier than expected. They said that Denali was socked in by fog and rain and not much fun.
Enjoying the sun:
Three fuzzy lumps:
The sun streaming in our front windows:
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Those rose hips are the real rose hips????? Many plants look so much alike. Please be careful.
I don't know. I'm guessing I learned from someone else that I gathered them with. I don't recall how I learned about blackberries, either, but I used to shove down mouthfuls of them when I used to walk around Lake Merced as a kid. Nor do I recall how I learned about poison oak, but that is something every Californian who hikes learns to identify! There are some things you don't learn on purpose. You just absorb as you live.
It's more that I was a little taken aback with how you made the statements about how no other plants resemble roses with such authority. And then added "None." Made me feel like geez, I better not mess with her! :)
Better be safe than sorry. we are not botanists, eating wild blackberries without problems do not guarantee other wild grown plants can be identified correctly. If you insist, use very little first, better be safe than sorry.
There is not a known plant on earth that in any way can be mistaken for a rose. Not one. I say emphatically! Do not mess with me! :)
Not to mention... in Alaska, there are limited plants that can tolerate this climate, making plant identification even easier.
You might as well say, "You're not a botanist. Don't eat the blueberries! You're not an ichthyologist! Don't eat the salmon!" As I've said to you before and I'll say again and again, life has enough REAL dangers to worry about. It is dreadfully unhealthy and limiting, and terribly sad, to limit your life because of IMAGINED ones.
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Those rose hips are the real rose hips????? Many plants look so much alike. Please be careful.
No other plants resemble roses. None.
Really? How did you learn about rose hips?
I don't know. I'm guessing I learned from someone else that I gathered them with. I don't recall how I learned about blackberries, either, but I used to shove down mouthfuls of them when I used to walk around Lake Merced as a kid. Nor do I recall how I learned about poison oak, but that is something every Californian who hikes learns to identify! There are some things you don't learn on purpose. You just absorb as you live.
It's more that I was a little taken aback with how you made the statements about how no other plants resemble roses with such authority. And then added "None." Made me feel like geez, I better not mess with her! :)
Oh, sorry. That was impatience toward an overimaginative mudder. I know she means well.
I am not by any stretch an authority on botany, but some things, yes, you really can be that sure! Some of nature's creations truly resemble no other!
That is why I moved back to the bay area from seattle. Too many dark and cloudy days!
Better be safe than sorry. we are not botanists, eating wild blackberries without problems do not guarantee other wild grown plants can be identified correctly.
If you insist, use very little first, better be safe than sorry.
There is not a known plant on earth that in any way can be mistaken for a rose. Not one. I say emphatically! Do not mess with me! :)
Not to mention... in Alaska, there are limited plants that can tolerate this climate, making plant identification even easier.
You might as well say, "You're not a botanist. Don't eat the blueberries! You're not an ichthyologist! Don't eat the salmon!" As I've said to you before and I'll say again and again, life has enough REAL dangers to worry about. It is dreadfully unhealthy and limiting, and terribly sad, to limit your life because of IMAGINED ones.
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