“I wish I could say the coming dark was taking me by surprise.”
— Charles Rafferty, closing line to “Forecast” (2017)
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Photo: Jackson Trail, Trail Around Middlebury, VT, 1 Nov. 2015
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Spectacular colors, but ooh, that is one ominous sky… a sunny stillness in waiting for the inevitable storm.
Are those cat tails? Cat tails are one of the more popular candidates for the official town flower of Los Gatos . . . obviously.
Ha ha. No, it’s some kind of grass.
Well, it does look like a few cattails mixed in but I don’t remember it as a wet spot.
Well, cat tails would like a marsh. That is why they were prominent in Los Gatos a very long time ago. There was a marsh where Los Gatos Creek flowed from the Santa Cruz Mountains, and onto its alluvial plain in the Santa Clara Valley. It is a park now. Of course, Los Gatos is named after bobcats, not the cat tails.