Zavzpominejte na CSSR - Californie XX

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Lemon Tree -- California XIX

Very short contribution this time about lemon trees. We bought a small lemon tree in a pot for our yard. After two weeks adapting to its new environment it started to blossom. And it is in blossom for four weeks yet and still goes on. Lemon, tangerine, and orange trees grow here everywhere. They are just over-loaded with fruit but nobody picks it, nobody eats it, because Americans, similarly to Britons, believe that fruit/vegetables/mushrooms are safe only from stores, they would never pick a wild strawberry or a mushroom in a forest. Their pity.

The truth is on the other hand that we know someone who picked perfectly edible mushrooms on a public lawn and ended in a hospital with light poisoning. The probable cause were absorbed pesticides and herbicides. So though we see beautiful mushrooms 'zampiony' and 'spicky' all the time and we, especially David, are tempted we have to resist.

So back to our little lemon tree. I wanted to point out the smell of its blossoms. It is so incredibly appealing and enticing that I cannot pass by and not to smell the flowers. It reminds me of a cup of jasmine tea but many times stronger. Another nice thing about the tree is that a pair of humming birds come to feed themselves on the lovely nectar the smell of which I have just described. So imagine a little tree with white and pink flowers orbited by two metal green super-fast-flapping birdies. Or you don't have to imagine you can look at the pictures though without the birds.

After the petals fall off, a little dark green berry stays on the branch. Now we are watching them slowly grow. First fruit should come in the beginning of the next year. I am looking forward to having my first own-lemon tea:)

Jak jsem si osedlala Golden Gate Bridge -- California XXI

Centrum Mill Valley ma starobyly charakter

Hora Mt Tam z pobrezi zalivu

Nejdrazsi bydleni v Americe v Tiburonu

Neobydleny ostrov Angel Island

Mesto pres zaliv

Pohled pres hory okolo Mt Tam na mesto s povestnou mlhou nad zalivem

Vezeni Alcatrazu, The Rock, odkud udajne nikdo zivy neutekl

A zase most....

Pokus o rimskou vykopavku, you'd wish!

Prochazka podel zalivu po Crissy Fields

Lombard, pote co se 101 odkloni na Van Ness

Radnice San Francisca, i tady se slavne strilelo

Budova SF Opery na Van Ness je velmi tradicni

Prozaicnost na Mission Street, cela ulice je takovy socialni prurez San Franciscem

Nakonec se pripojuje doprava z vychodniho pobrezi po Bay Bridge


Bay Bridge z dalky

101 v SF v noci smerem na jih

Tak dneska jsem poprve jela sama autem (ridila jsem, ale sama jsem nebyla, vezla jsem male kluky domu z kopcu v Marin County) pres Golden Gate Bridge. A pekne zivocisne jsem mela pocit, ze ted mi ten most kousickem patri, ze jsem si ho osedlala. Vzdycky pred tim jsem se jenom vezla a to si do znacne miry clovek porad pripada jako turista. Taky fakt, ze jsem prejela cele San Francisco v nedeli odpoledne, me povzbudil, vsude doprava jak blazen a navic to neni uplne nabiledni kudy a jak to projet, tak ted uz to vim, na nana na.

Jela jsem z Mill Valley, krasneho maleho mestecka vklineneho do lesu v udoli pod nejvyssi horou v okoli Mt Tam (celym jmene Mount Tamalpais). Tohle vsechno je na sever od San Francisco v Marin County (okres), odkud se do mesta musi prejet pres Golden Gate Bridge. Z Mill Valley se jede takovou 'okreskou' a pak se napojite na dalnici 101, hlavni severo-jizni tah podel pobrezi v severni Californii. Z dalnice vlevo je videt zaliv, bohata osada Tiburon na poloostrove s nejdrazsimi domy v USA, neobydleny ostrov Angel Island se statnim parkem, v dalce maly ostruvek s tvrzi Alcatrazu zvany 'The Rock' a v mlze vzdalena silueta San Fransisca.

Projedete dvema tunely a pak uz se ritite pomalu na GG Bridge. Na moste zaplatite mytne $6 a znacky US 101 vas navedou do mesta, po leve strane plaze na Crissy Fields a 'rimsky' chram Exploratoria, muzea umeni a vedy. Tam se dalnice zmeni na takovou Vinohradskou tridu zvanou Lombard Street a dal po veletride Van Ness Avenue se prokodrcate mestem. Bohuzel tu neznaji zelenou vlnu, takze clovek asi tak 150x zastavi na cervenou na rohu kazdeho bloku. Alespon mate ale cas si prohlidnout radnici mesta, operu, podivat se do velmi naklonenych pricnych ulic, pripadne zahlednout tramvaj tady zvanou 'street car'. Konecne po pretnuti dlouhatanske Mission Street a po vystani nezbytne zacpy se napojite na opravdovou dalnici 101 a tou se uz pohodlne dostanete dal na jih k nam. Tak.