Manzanita @ GBs Ranch (Arctostaphylos)

I've always liked manzanita plants and thought it time for a webpage based on the little apples.

while manzanita grows all around the hills here in northern california, most of these pictures that I've used in this lens were taken out at GBs ranch.

Manzanita grow with the leaves on edge toward the sun, this is the plants defense mechanism to keep from getting overly dehydrated during the long hot summers here

we sometimes made the small berries into a cider when we were kids, as Euell Gibbons usta say, Many parts are edible