It’s taken me a few attempts to write this post. The first draft was all over the place and vague. The second was to-the-point but didn’t offer the compassion that such news deserves. And finally, on my third attempt, I just wrote freely as if I were sharing the news with a friend. Because that’s ...
It’s taken me a few attempts to write this post. The first draft was all over the place and vague. The second was to-the-point but didn’t offer...
![Lupine season in Squamish got me like 😌 You can spot a whole field of these beauties intersecting highway 99 at Centennial Road and I just had to look up why the heck there were so many in a small area, then I found this bit of info from Pemberton Museum: When a man named Joe was working on the highway construction, he used to take seeds [from the farm he lived on] with him and he’d fill drinking straws with them. He would then put the straw in his mouth and as he drove along the road with a load of rocks or gravel, he would blow through the straw and spray the seeds in the dirt at the side of the road. The next year the seeds would sprout and soon the sides of the road were lined with beautiful coloured lupines. After several years of this practice the lupines sprouted regularly when the snow departed and brought the wonderful freshness of new growth that only flowers can bring. Years later, the highways department adopted this practice of spraying flowers and grass onto new banks to pre vent erosion and to beautify the highways.](http://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/f7c12a8d2baed20578f3c0d98723a997/5D86A944/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c180.0.1080.1080a/s640x640/59951584_185028735825557_1364900214604494103_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com "Lupine season in Squamish got me like 😌 You can spot a whole field of these beauties intersecting highway 99 at Centennial Road and I just had to look up why the heck there were so many in a small area, then I found this bit of info from Pemberton Museum: When a man named Joe was working on the highway construction, he used to take seeds [from the farm he lived on] with him and he’d fill drinking straws with them. He would then put the straw in his mouth and as he drove along the road with a load of rocks or gravel, he would blow through the straw and spray the seeds in the dirt at the side of the road. The next year the seeds would sprout and soon the sides of the road were lined with beautiful coloured lupines. After several years of this practice the lupines sprouted regularly when the snow departed and brought the wonderful freshness of new growth that only flowers can bring. Years later, the highways department adopted this practice of spraying flowers and grass onto new banks to pre vent erosion and to beautify the highways.")
