re: "No relation to 4/20" — Indeed the reference, according to google, is to the plant's slender, grass-like leaves and attractive flowers. Although their narrow leaves do resemble grass, they are actually perennial bulbs – meaning they live for more than two years.

Long and slender, the stems just bounce with the slightest breeze. Ask the photographer.

They seem to ALWAYS be in rocky soil. Bulbs are down there somewhere.

Just FYI, the north side of the ridge has lots of them, but is a serious climbing trek.

That's a serious incline, and not the only one here.
But it's where most of them grow.



Many of those rocks are loose and wobbly, as well.

The things I do ....

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photography made me aware of things around me I might have simply walked by and taken for granted. I found some bulbs in my yard recently and as soon as I photograph them and find out what they are, I will share.

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Looking forward to those photos HAB911.

The three projects I started on 3/10 just finished on 4/14, septic, driveway, re-sod the yard.

I have not photographed anything during that time and I'm miserable. I really need to be creating something.

Normally I would have been out photographing the work even though some workers don't like that. I have a security camera system that allowed me record everything from three different angles, then extract stills as representative of the overall work. I guess luckily I hired the three best contractors I've ever dealt with, not something I could have hoped for, but for sure happy about it. Itching to get back into some airplane photos, so treating myself to a new lens tomorrow. So, look out!

Nikon Z 800mm. Right now shooting with the 180-600 zoom with a converter at 1200mm. the 800 will give me 1600mm with the converter. (I think we may have hijacked this OP, sorry, will start new soon)

I have shot with the 1000mm catadioptric mirror F mount with converter at 2000mm but that is manual focus and basically useless for my purpose, on top of the fact it only has a 1 deg angle of view, which means difficulty finding your subject! 1600mm will be 1.5 deg, and 1200mm is 2 deg.

I have also shot with the P-1000 at 3000mm but it is impossible to find your target with an angle of view of .5 deg and one must zoom out, find the target and then power zoom in on it. it's a little slow on focus and shoot too.

shot with the Nikkor 1000mm cat w/converter at 2000mm, probably 3000 ft altitude and 1 mile away:

That is one incredible lens.

I used a P510 for a decade or more, and still do. 24-1000mm effective FL, it did everything I wanted, (great close-ups) so I completely bypassed the DSLR era.

I just jumped into mirrorless (Z). Being able to use all the old Nikon F lenses, non-AI is awesome.

Newer lenses will focus past infinity, accounting for some slop in the mechanisms. The older ones wouldn't, so taking star (and comet) photos called for the old lenses after some frustration. Try focusing on stars in the dark, will you. Best results were with the old 180/2.8.

One year, I got hummingbirds feeding in the wild with it, and being in the sun, the flat panel was impossible. And the viewfinder on that old model is completely useless. Since I am nearsighted, I'd have to take my glasses off to see the display. Talk about hard ti sight things in!!! Amazingly enough, though I could barely see the hummingbirds in all the glare, that little camera's autofocus worked very well.

So, I got a P1000, to a large extent for the bright infinity-focus viewfinder. Other reasons, as well.
Got some of my best bird pix in the 800-1000mm range. Includes the P510.

Looking forward to your 800mm photos.