Color on

Luke, Blaze, blossoms.

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

One of the special joys of living on Bainbridge is access to farms and animals. My daughter loves animals, though she saves a particular dislike for raccoons.

She’s really into a horse phase so after dinner we take her to visit some horses.

luke and blaze

Luke and Blaze are two retired mountain horses currently spending quality time enjoying the sights, smells and sounds of Johnson Farm. On arrival, mud be damned, my daughter bursts forth from the car “Luke & Blaze, Luke & Blaze, we have carrots for you!”

Color, rhododendron, spring.

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

We had some concerns about the health of some of the rhododendron in the yard after this winter’s heavy snows. Fear not, color have we!

rhody and sky

color down the line

pink

looking down

blooming

Science, butterflies, colors.

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The crocus colors paint the garden but we found the butterflies in the Tropical Butterfly House at the Pacific Science Center put on an even greater show.

With the exception of the Monarch, none of the butterflies in the room are native to Washington, the rest being imported from South and Central America from butterfly farms. They live almost their entire life in a wonderfully humid room my Pacific Northwest kid found “too hot!”

Fall, color, leaves.

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

My addition to fall color photography.

trees going up, up, up

The Grand Forest – we are the Evergreen State after all.

red

Blueberry.

red and blue

Maple.

lace leaf maple

Lace leaf maple.

bright red maple

Japanese maple.