Today we did an afternoon walk, on a chilly, breezy, but sunny afternoon, around the Emeryville peninsula surrounding the marina there and ending with Emeryville Marina Park. We’ve done this walk before, perhaps three times; we park at the “Watergate Shopping center”, then walked to the end of peninsula, and back.
Today, no doubt part of the “superbloom” everyone is noticing in California and Arizona, we noticed these blooming plants.
These plants are “Pride of Madeira,” or Echium candicans, in full bloom. Note how different plants have slightly different colors:
Across the inlet is downtown Oakland.
Here’s a bird, just standing there, three feet from me.
And here’s one of at least a dozen remnants of trees on this little peninsula that were downed by the wind and rainstorms that hit the Bay Area over the past three months.
