Tulips Just Tulips

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Skagit Valley, Tulip Time, Daffs, too.

Tulips last Year, but they are in bloom now. 

Alas, it is raining..

Moorehaven Koi Garden

Daffs in The Skigit Valley

The Skagit Valley

Looking for a feather. I hiked through a wet sour slough to a hill
over looking islands and after sitting there awhile watching birds and
water patterns I saw a feather fluttering nearby. I think it's from a
falcon or hawk.
You can make out Mt Baker in the distance in one of these photos. I
could faintly see Mt Rainier as well.
I was a mess after this hike. I should have worn disposable pants
cause I splattered black mud all over me. No going to Palmers
afterwards for dinner or burger in the bar. I was filthy dirty.
I loved it!!
It was truly beautiful being out in the slough and just being part of
nature.

It's tulip time in the Skagit valley. But rain expected all week.

TotalGreen 72415200 Tulip Bulbs

WILD YELLOW DAFFODIL BULBS

TotalGreen 72415400 Crocus Bulbs

Yeoman Carbon Steel Bulb Planter with Squeeze Handle #CYE240

A shot of pink as peonies become dried petals.... and other pink flowers here from this spring, early summer

Let it Snow...

My cousin visited recently from France. I forgot to take photos. It's been soo long since I had contact with any family of origin, I just plain forgot to think of anything but being there with him. He lives in the South of France, where he and his wife who died a few years ago lived for many years after leaving Morocco. They were and he is a missionary. A very kind man, warm, and caring.
I have three cousins, he and his brother and sister remaining to my family of origin. It had been 49 years since I last saw him.

Darla, his wife, invited me to France before she became ill. I didn't go. But felt I knew her. When my cousin came, I bought these white tulips, and I know she whispered to me to include her that day in this way. He was very touched as well.

So here are the tulips, white were all they had at he store, white for immortality..
........ and the snow falling on red maple..

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Photos left to right:

1. Mt. Adams Cairn

2.  Mt. Adams sunrise

3. Harlequin Ducks on the Elwha River

4. Apples in Snow

5. Foggy Barn at Snohomish

6. Koi

7. Mt Shuksan

8. Tulip Fields

9.  Red Barn at Whitehorse

10. Fields of Snow

11. Dungeness Pool

12. Peacock

13. Dungeness River

14. Heather Lake Under Snow