Stealth Portrait

It's nine o'clock on a summer Friday morning and she brings me to a busy, noisy cafe to look at boring , stupid flash cards! Nobody said I had to look at them….

I could never have gotten that portrait if I'd asked. Such a cute kid with a classic expression of boredom, disinterest and a tinge of frustration. I didn't stay around to find out if full revolt ensued but it certainly seemed imminent. Perhaps a cup of hot chocolate would have helped….

There are two stores in the same shopping area as Acre Coffee which I felt sure would have paper flowers for the Flower Friday challenge, but the fact that I don't really like 'fake flowers' didn't make it any easier to take a nice picture of them. I offer instead in the extras a picture of Western Sedge  growing near Spring Lake.  

The Army Corps of Engineers, in their infinite wisdom, planted sedge in spots all around the San Francisco Bay to control erosion and conserve wetlands.. In a stunning, if not terribly surprising,  oversight they planted Eastern Sedge which grows to a height of seven or eight feet, instead of the more mannerly Western Sedge which is much shorter and controls erosion while still allowing views of the bay. Volunteers (NOT the Army Corps) are in the process of removing  the Eastern stuff.  Perhaps they can use it to make paper….

I'm not sure erosion is the issue with climate change promising to raise the level of the bay by three or four feet by the end of the century.