With John Muir Laws of the Nature Sketching group and Laurie Wigham of SF sketchers meetup group, we headed to Ring Mountain in Corte Madera on a beautiful May day.
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This is the Soap Plant that is growing in abundance all over the mountain. None of the flowers were in bloom. The Miwok Indians used it to make soap, as a colorant and a stupifying agent. |
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The Soap plant finally begins to bloom in the afternoon. Here is one opened waiting for pollination.
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page from my sketchbook..studies of rocks, soap plant and view.. |
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closeup of watercolor and pen of north view of bay.... |