Spring
This past weekend it was warm in the Pacific Northwest for the first time in over 8 months, and seeing as I didn’t travel anywhere warm in that time, it was also the first time I could happily wear a T-shirt in so many months. I hardly remembered what 85° F felt like; what an …Read the Rest…
Continue reading about Spring Rush – Raging Waterfalls of the Gifford Pinchot
After a long and dark winter, it’s finally that glorious time of year when the spring wildflowers emerge from their slumber. Together with the sun, they begin in the east, greeting the world with open hearts and smiling faces. This weekend I went out to Wenatchee, on the east side of the cascade range, to …Read the Rest…
Continue reading about Spring Rises in the East – Wenatchee Wildflowers
A few weeks ago I visited the fields of blooming Balsamroot and Lupine in Columbia Hills State Park. While listening to a symphony of Western Meadowlarks greeting the morning sun, Adam Gibbs (a friend and photographer from Vancouver) said to me, “You don’t realize how much you miss those sounds when you’re in the city.” …Read the Rest…
After spending a month in the record breaking rainy March of the Pacific Northwest it was nice to be back in sunny California for a few days. I grew up near Shell Ridge, which is at the base of Mt Diablo. Just a few hundred yards from my parents house is a paradise of rolling …Read the Rest…
Continue reading about California Sunshine – Spring around Mt Diablo
Last weekend, over Mothers day, I was home in sunny California visiting my parents. It was great to get away from the cold and rain for a bit.. yes up here in the Pacific Northwest it’s still cold, and spring has barely started (today’s high is 56F, that is 13C). This month is the coldest …Read the Rest…
Continue reading about Spring Sneezing : Mt Diablo State Park
Apparently last week Friday, April 8th, was the first mostly sunny day we’ve had in Seattle in 42 days. That makes it sound pretty dreary here, and while it sometimes feels that way, it isn’t as gray and rainy as many people think. I bike to work every day, rain or shine, and I’ve only …Read the Rest…
For the past three years I’ve made a point of going to King’s Canyon / Sequoia National Park near the end of May or early June to catch the blooming Dogwoods in their prime. It’s a magical experience to see the giant white flowers glowing in the sunlight, sparkling like giant snowflakes and twinkling stars. …Read the Rest…
California is just about covered in flowers right now, and I figured where better to see it from, than from the air itself? That’s right my friends, here’s what California looks like from a small plane right now! A friend of a friend who owns a Cessna 172 graciously offered to fly me around some …Read the Rest…
For the last two months or so I’ve been following the progress of the impending wildflower bloom in Death Valley National Park, waiting for the moment everything would jump into bloom. Well, that moment has arrived! My first destination was to a spot where a friend and I discovered the tiny beginnings – cotyledons – …Read the Rest…
California has experienced a strange winter and early spring season thus far this year. Typically the annual desert wildflowers would be winding down in their activity over the next few weeks; this year, however, some of the desert areas are just getting started! I spent the previous weekend touring various parts of Death Valley with …Read the Rest…
