During part of our vacation, it was possible to think we'd accidentally gone on our friend K's vacation by mistake. At Clearlake we narrowly missed a quilting exhibit and then, at Fort Bragg, we spent a day walking trails at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.
Heathers and perennials were stars of the moment.
We wandered freely.
The gate separates longer trails from the shorter garden paths.
A banana slug. The banana slug is the official UCSC campus mascot.
The pine and fern garden area. It's nice that they leave the dead trunks as part of the landscape.
Coastal fog.
Dahlias.
Sunflowers at the vegetable garden.
And finally, lunch.
