Walking in Mineral King (Not a hike because we didn’t take packs)
Instead of the now normal down-the-road-and-up-the-Nature-Trail walk, or the wussy turning around at Crystal Creek, we went past Crystal to Franklin Creek.
It was a little bit farther this year. Don’t you just hate that?
The flowers were most totally excellent.
This was interesting to your wildflower obsessed Central Calif. artist: a purple bush lupine adjacent* to a seldom-seen pink bush lupine.
This is angelica, not to be confused with cow parsnip. Angelica has lacy leaves, sort of visible at the bottom of this photo.
Here is Franklin Creek/Franklin Falls. This is the stream that rose too high for my hiking pal K and I to cross last year in August. You can read about it here: An Exciting Mineral King Hike
Crossing Crystal Creek is way more my speed than dealing with the deeper, steeper, and faster Franklin Creek.
Oh man! I forgot again to put that dime in my pocket for understanding sizes of little flowers!
The Indian paintbrush were spectacular, particularly interspersed with the grayish green sage.
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This painting is sold, but I can paint it again for you.
*”Adjacent” is “everyone’s” new favorite word. Podcasters and bloggers love to attach it to other words, like this: “This blog about art is Mineral King adjacent”.
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I love your sense of humor! I’m finding that things have moved farther away as well!
What a beautiful place. And what a beautiful painting!
Yea, thank you, Michelle! I crack myself up, and find that I am often in a party of one.
As always, gorgeous photos of this area.
I most certainly use “adjacent” regularly these days in the context you’re referring to. It’s become a common turn of phrase, but I agree that it’s not grammatically correct!
Elisabeth, words get misused, overheard and repeated, and after they have been published a certain number of times (I forget the number), they make it into the dictionary. This is why it is now acceptable to use plural pronouns for singular situations, and I suspect that “irregardless” will probably be in the dictionary soon, if not already there. Editors are guardians of the language, but we don’t have enough power to overcome the media or the interwebs!
How can you hate going “little bit farther this year”? Farther is a winner! But at least the weather looked marvelous.
“Adjacent” means physically next to, or in close proximity to something else. The Three Rivers Post Office is adjacent to the Village Market. Blogs can’t be “next to” Mineral King. Harumph!
(signed)
The Grammar Police
Sharon, it just felt like a longer walk, because I’ve never been this old before.
I’m in complete agreement with you on the misuse of “adjacent”. It has come to mean “similar” rather than close in physical proximity.
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