Carnivorous Plants!

When we woke up today the sun was shining, but it's showered on and off. We took some of our stuff we had culled out to the Elks thrift shop in town. While we were there of course we picked up a few things, a book and some cd's (a 3-disc set of Willie Nelson and a Boston Pops showtunes selections by John Williams, and an audiobook of a Fannie Flagg novel). The book we'll read and pass on, and the cd's will get removed from their jackets and put in a large cd holder, so they won't add much weight. On the way home we stopped at a car wash that also has a do-it-yourself dog wash. We're going to try bathing Sweetie there--just put another quarter in when the machine buzzes.

After lunch we drove around the area and stopped at the Darlingtonia State Natural Area, an 18-acre state park dedicated to the preservation of a carnivorous plant, also called the California pitcher plant. It snares unwary insects and draws them into its hollow stem, where they fall into some liquid at the bottom and are "digested" by bacteria into nitrogen for the plants' use.


For supper we had cranberry ginger salmon with rice and mixed veggies and salad.