It’s good to be home again. We had fun on the trip, but there’s nothing like one’s own bed…
We came back by way of Fort Bragg, CA and stopped at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. The rhododendrons were blooming.

Interestingly, some of them extrude (sticky) strings of pollen.

The native rhodies were blooming too, though they aren’t as flashy as the cultivated ones. You can see them scattered through the woods.

Now, back to ugly political reality.