The quail are back! This is the first one I’ve seen in months. I hope we’ll soon see parades of tiny chicks scurrying behind the adults.
First of the season
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Earth Day
Happy Earth Day. We share this beautiful world with a huge, complex web of life. Cherish and protect it, great and small. It’s all we’ve got.
Sequim pavement
It’s the time of year when Sequim turns bright yellow. It seems that any patch of soil that isn’t cultivated is paved with dandelions.
Dandelions take no prisoners. This patch was mowed about three days ago. After he mows DH swears he hears dandelions popping back up behind him yelling, “Sucker!”
Buds
I love to see trees starting to come to life in spring.
A tree in three views
First I caught sight of this tree (A cherry? Flowering plum?) while walking in the reclaimed quarry area of Butchart Gardens. As with so many specimen trees in the garden, it was beautifully framed by everything around it.
Then, while walking on a path above it, it again took center stage.
Further along, looking back, it was still eye catching and glorious. That’s the sort of balance a perfectly designed garden offers.
By now, a couple of weeks later, the massed beds on the margins of each of these shots will be in bloom with tulips and other colorful bedding plants. The gardens become more breathtaking as spring progresses.
Tulips
Tulips were just beginning to get glorious at Butchart Gardens when we were there on April 2nd. Many flower beds like this one showed early blooms in the forefront with more foliage and buds not far behind. Other bedding plants, like forget-me-nots, will fill in as spring progresses.
There were enough blooms throughout the garden for me to find and declare a new favorite: Early Harvest.
Please stay on path
Who can fault a scofflaw when he’s this cute?