Or if Governor Brown would just declare tanning salons an essential service I could see to it myself.

Thanks. I needed that.

Lichen. My image search turned up wolf lichen as a fair match.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letharia_vulpina

Larkspur? Several species in the area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphinium

Might be bitter root/balsam root?
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Balsamorhiza%20serrata

Maybe next time you see Angie you could ask her to open up the wound a little and then give you 20 minutes of UV therapy in the tanning bed.

Being a wound care center, I'm sure they have a few tanning beds.

Just be sure to spray the wound with Lysol before you lie down.

Reminds me of Oscar the Grouch.

Hello Old Paint!

This shot makes me wish I was floating down the river in a kayak.

What a scene!

Yes, but it’s no Tercel.

That's a nice looking car.

That’s so great! I’m sure you must be right. I found several other photos of this plant, and everything looks right. I’ve never heard of it before.

Lupines are so pretty, and found all over! I agree possibly prairie lupine. Sometimes they are hard to tell one from the other.

Took some digging around on the internet, but I think maybe it is manyflower.

https://inside.ewu.edu/ewflora/thelypodium-milleflorum/

Hi, Carolyn. Nice to hear from you again, and thanks for your sympathy and suggestions about the dog attack. Now that the injury is healing well, it’s beginning to feel like a pretty small issue - which doesn’t mean I won’t keep trying to soak it for sympathy for awhile. In a world gone mad, it hardly counts.

I, for one, certainly don’t intend to start ingesting or injecting bleach at this time; but thanks for the reminder. You don’t know how envious we are up here of you Kiwis and your impressive leader. But then, even a bottle of bleach would be an improvement over what we’re dealing with here. Stay safe!