I call these Spring Beauties - but I've looked them up and they're called the Broad-Leaved Starflower, or Indian Potato. Apparently some of the Native Americans ate the tubers. This photo made me see what else is on the forest floor - you can see alder cones and old leaves, bits of lichen, branch tips from fir trees, and all the other bits and pieces of compost, settling back into the earth.
This feather was right in the middle of the path. It is from either the owl or a hawk. The little flowers around it are the actual Spring Beauties, according to the book.
Here's David's boat with the new paint job. He finally got to get his boat in the water today - he left at 5:00 am to go fishing for ling cod with a couple of friends. The good news is that the boat worked great! The sad news is: no fish!! Well, no one else caught any, either - it's either too early, or too cold, or the tide was wrong, or . . . . well, you get the drift.
But, now that the boat's good, he'll be going several times each week. Shrimp season will be open for a couple of days - it's actually the two-spot prawn, the largest prawns, and boy, are they good! So hopefully he'll get out there for that.
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You can tell from the fuzz on that feather that it's an owl feather. Hawk feathers are smooth - owls have that on their to help keep them silent during flight.
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