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March 26
Nancy Artz, front and center, you go! Nancy is fast becoming our designated good-time-girl. She takes us on cool outings and we say 'wow, what a good time we had. Thanks Nancy!'
Nancy and Sandy in the back row. Here we are enjoying a wonderful lunch out on the patio of the cafe in the Malibu Country Inn.
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Then we drove over to Zuma Canyon Orchids.
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Of course you have read The Orchid Thief? If not you are in for a great treat. You'll get to spend some serious quality time with real fanatics and see how orchids have become the center of a devoted and complicated way of life.
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Here they don't have so many varieties like you'd expect after reading The Orchid Thief but still numerous gorgeous examples of the more commercial types.
I suppose if they did have the rare ones they wouldn't be out on free display!
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A staghorn fern.
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Sandy in total concentration, the first step in what will no doubt become a fabulous art project.
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Sandy's shot of stripped leaves...
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...and white orchids.
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More.
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After lunch and the orchids we were heading back looking for a nice stop to stretch our legs and came upon a wildflower display put on by the California Native Plant Society at, I think, the visitor's center at Malibu Lagoon State Beach.
It was very fun, a community effort, casual in presentation yet serious in purpose.
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There was a nice easy walk outside the visitor's center and we identifed a few places that would make for a perfect picnic spot.
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Views from the walk.
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More. Do we live in paradise or what.
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