Flora

The flora here are wonderful. In the season, fields around Brookings are full of flowers, evidently grown for nurseries and florists. It is quite a sight.

    A short ways south of here, at Smith River, there is a sign proclaiming that location to be “the lily-bulb capitol of the world.” I am not sure exactly what that means. Likely it states that more lily-bulbs are grown here than anywhere else, a claim that I am not prepared to dispute. Or it may mean that the Smith River location is so conducive to the growth of lily-bulbs that they are drawn to it for its sheer beneficence. But it might mean that Smith River is the seat of a world-wide system of governance among lily-bulbs, about which we know little. I leave it to you.