December day in the Northwest

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Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor,
summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all.
--Stanley Horowitz

Across the street...

Lovely colors not far from home.

Haunted Hustle Fun Run
Puyallup, WA

A favorite spot in my garden.
The dogwood and sedum's fall colors go so well together.

Stellar Jay enjoying our sunflower.

July 2008
A busy, fun month.

A trip to Ocean Shores and some fun on the beach.

Ginger, Bryan and Dawn after they finishd the 1/2
Ironman triathlon.

Barry doing what he loves.

Grandpa and Grandson at the ballpark.

Ocean Spray tree with flower clusters dangling
from the tips of it's arching branches.

One of my perennial gardens.

Blue Butterfly Delphiniums and Salvia Nemorosa

On a recent trip to Oregon, we spotted some hay bales.

These lovely trees are in Oregon.
See the sheep...

This Dragonfly sat here for the longest time,
allowing me to take many photos.

Merlin Falcon sitting on my fence.

Salvia nemorosa and cute geraniums

'Patriot' Hosta

I love the colors of this Smoke Bush.

This planting welcomes you by the front door.

Colorful azalea in the front yard.

Azalea, Wild Ginger, Bleeding Heart

This bench is in our woodland corner.

Four Generations on Mother's Day

It's Spring!

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

~ Proverb

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot

and the wind blows cold:

when it is summer in light, and winter in shade.

~ Chales Dickens

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New addition for the woodland corner of our garden,
Helleborus, Lenten Rose.

This is an Indian Plum bush. It's one of the very first plants
to bloom here in the spring. The leaves come out first, then the
blossoms dangle down from the leaf. To me it looks like little
fairies fluttering all over the bush.

Riffe Lake - It's drained quit low at this time of year,
ready for snow run off.

Some of the stumps where huge.

Hard to believe this will soon be under water.

White Pass, snowshoeing with the Hill's.
It was a great spring snow day.

A beautiful scene along our walk.

Lake Fenwick shore line, early March