Who is your Poppy? Thursday #375

[RICHARD]

We have not had a road trip in a while..

I'll pull the bus around and load up the bus.

Sub sandwiches and box wine?


MY fave place this time of year.

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DONE!

[Cinder & Smoke]

I'll pull the bus around and load up the bus.

Sub sandwiches and box wine?

Menue sounds *phine*.

Don't furget to load the Golf Cart -
that looks like a long walk from the bus parking lot!

[Karen]

I loved the California poppies when we were out there years ago, I'll have to look up the poem I wrote.

[Catherinedana]

Beeeeautiful place, that Poppy Reserve. Been away from work for 5 days and today is my first day back so a road trip is definately in order.

What kinda subs? Can I have a diet coke (very cold) instead of wine?

Do they sell Poppy-related items at the reserve?

[Pinot's Mom]

I'm in, I'm in! There's wine, food and flowers...I'm in!!

[smokey the elder]

Just look out for the Wicked Witch of the West! I need some strong coffee. I got a blend from Bear Mountain Roasters called "Wakeup Call" which is REALLY good.

[Karen]

From 2001:


A year ago we were there,
Driving through the hills of Marin county
Winding through April-green hills
On twisting roads with breathtaking views
Swallowed by the next valley,
But revealed anew with another twisting climb

There we were, standing on the hills
Looking across at San Francisco,
Cleaner and neater from across the bay
As we posed for pictures, windswept and chilly
Admiring the blue of the bay, and colors of the city

Muir woods were a treasure, and emerald gem
Tucked into the hills, how could such magnificence
Be so well hidden by the terrain
That mankind thought before plowing them over
Damp, dark woods, neck-strainingly immense trees
Slow time-travelers, witness to generations
I wonder what they think of flash cameras
When we stand in their shelter
For pictures that cannot hope to convey the majesty
Just the memory

And everywhere we traveled in the California sunshine
Poppies blossomed with a velvet sun-silk petals
Wild on the roadside like their own goldrush
Curling up, when shadows come
Like we, sheltering in a hotel room, sleep

Then the drive down the California coast
Famous highway of every movie, and south and more south still.
Again the heart-stopping vistas, and sunshine-silk road trim
So green the hills, fairytale green and rounded
Then the road curves coastward again
Dusk then darkness come as we find the secret place we seek
Known world-wide in certain seal-circles
But easy to miss from the road

Early California morning, we drive, in quiet
And after parking in the paved lot, commence the hike
Through wild California-kind of flat emptyish fullness
We hike miles through low, flat brush, avoiding poison oak
And hearing skittering life hiding in the wind-blown scrub
Stopping to marvel now and again
That such a populous place was wise enough
To value peace and see the unglamorous beauty and save it.

Quietly, finally, we come to the rope
And come across the elephant seals, dozing, sleeping
In the good patch of sand just across a gully from us
And marvel at them, as they mostly ignore us
They have species-old tasks to attend to, sleeping mostly
And our hushed whispers don't dare interrupt

And on and on I could write, but the peace and beauty
Of California in early April
(not yet brown and dry as I'm told it will become
but not for me, ever green it stays in my heart)
Such different nature, and air, and even the weeds are California pretty
And the peace and a few purloined pebbles
Stay with me, even now.

[RedHedd]

Ooh! Poppies! Just don't inhale too deeply ..... you are getting sleepy .... VERRRY VEWWY SLEEPY!

[phesina]

Just what goes on during these Thursday gatherings? Poppy and I both want to know!

[Lady's Human]

And I woke up in a field of Poppies...poppies...poppies..poppies.............

[RedHedd]

Well, I appear to have missed "4/20" so I guess all we get is Poppies

[cassiesmom]

Could I sit next to Poppy for a little while? Water Joe for me, please ... I'm getting sleeeeeeepy...

[RICHARD]

Just what goes on during these Thursday gatherings? Poppy and I both want to know!

Whatever you want.

Thursdays is a vitrual bar with a different theme each week. (Or, at least we try!) It's a good time to be had by all.

Two rules to participate!!!!

Membership is one clean joke.

And you have to check your troubles at the door.

There are a whole host of people, characters and good times to be had.

So,
Walk right in and sit right down! Get your joke ready and I can serve you a drink should you like one!

DONE!

LH,

Yes sir!

*announcer voice8

And on the main stage here at Thursday's...Let's give a warm welcome to Tom T-bone Stankus!

DONE!

REDD,
you can do anything you want......DONE?!?!?!?

DJ,

The "special" and some CNT!

DONE!

[phesina]

Sounds great! Orders coming up:

I'll have a glass of cold Chardonnay!
- Pat

I'll have a bowl of warm chicken gravy!
- Poppy

[davidpizzica]

RICHARD, I'll have a huge hoagie and a coffee with Bailey's, please. I'll try to keep Orc out of those Poppies!