Garden Update!

About a week ago in this blog space I showed you this photo (taken March 8) of an ambitious family garden not far from where Shelley and I live. This family has devoted their whole front yard to flowers. I mentioned that as time went along I would show you update...

Clean!

Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Russell Jurgensen Thursday, March 28, 2024 This magnolia tree put on a nice show of flowers and made it feel like clean snow when standing close to it. I thought for a minute about what clean could mean. Maybe if we look at it like a verb...

Water Is Life

Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Darren Milam Wednesday, March 27, 2024 I’ve always enjoyed capturing water images. Just think of some of the possibilities — waterfalls, snow, icicles, steam, clouds, rain drops, ice, streams, waves, and even small rivers like...

Swallow-tailed Gull

Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Robert Howson Tuesday, March 26, 2024 Special it was; special enough to draw the attention of birders across the United States to a rocky beach on the outskirts of Seattle. It’s not that Puget Sound does not have an abundance of gulls...

A Season for Everything

Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Cheryl Boardman Monday, March 25, 2024 I went on a short drive yesterday looking for buttercups, yellow bells and bluebirds. I did find buttercups, lots of them, but no bluebirds (mountain or western) were to be seen as I drove along a...