Never knowing. Shocking but we're nothing, we're just moments. We're clever but we're clueless, we're just human. Amusing but confusing. We're trying, but where is this all leading? Never Know.
-Jack Johnson
Thank you Tadas for you comments on "Berry Beautiful". I'm pleased you like it.
It's a Yew-tree. I'd guess Western (or Pacific) Yew, Taxus brevifolia. The European next of kin is Taxus baccata. The wood of these often bushlike trees were used for material to bows, tools, paddles, snowshoe frames. These days it's used to make an anticancer drug (taxol). All parts of this plant is poisenous as far as I know. The red fruits look tempting but it would be a great mistake to eat them... Some birds seems to do fine eating them though. (That's how the Yew Tree spread to new places.)