Flower Friday. : : Blue Eyed Grass

I have never heard this pretty little wildflower called anything else, but it's botanical name is Sisyrinchium Bellum.  It is a California Coastal native, blooming every spring and self seeding itself over the summer. It's a nice counterpoint to the lupins and buttercups which are coming up is great numbers in our field. I've put a not very good picture in extras....

I read this morning of the passing of HRH Prince Phllip. My memory of him is limited to seeing him at various royal functions playing his role as the queen's consort to perfection. My first memory of the British Royal family was the coronation of Elizabeth. We didn't have a television in 1953 but we had family friends who invited us to watch the proceedings on theirs. I was suitably impressed by the young queen, her handsome husband,  and all the pomp and circumstance. In recent years I feel that there was no group that he didn't insult in his sometimes rather too off the cuff remarks. But then again, I can't understand how anyone could live with the constraints put upon the royal family. 

Plans continue to be made to scrap the Covid tier system in California if the death rate continues to be low and the vaccination rate high. Of course everything is reported along with stories of how other parts of the country are entering a fourth surge or reopening too soon,  dropping supplies of vaccine and new, more contagious, more resistant variants spreading. There are also stories of Covid related anxiety regarding re-entering society after over a year in isolation and vaccine hesitancy. I don't really know what to believe and try not to think about it because I don't think anybody else does either, but when even the Blue Apron meals come with a printed card how to relieve stress whilst waiting for dinner to cook, it's hard to avoid....

It is good to be among the 'fully vaccinated'....