Category: Flowers

For Karuna-I can be so judgmental sometimes….

Bullet Points:

-Some one gave me a gift…a polar fleece vest…in the ugliest color…bright fuchsia?! Not a color I would ever choose or wear…too fake looking….and didn’t that person know that pink is way too “girly” for me? I put it in the closet…way in the back…

-A couple of years later, I am on a Spring walk with my camera, in search of new flowers. I come across a stunning flower, the brightest color for miles around (or so it seems). I have these thoughts, “there are so many colors in Nature that we just have not been able to duplicate. We don’t even have names for some of the colors we see in a sunset or a flower. This flower is a spectacular color!! I wish I had something to wear in this color…”

I pick just a blossom leaf or two to take home. I put them in my pocket.

-That same week I am doing a closet downsizing for a Goodwill run and find the never worn, long-forgotten ugly pink vest tucked way in the back…..and then I remember those bright colored petals!

 

 

 

 

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I blushed about the same color!

Needless to say, it has become one of my favorite things to wear. I even got socks, a scarf and shoes with a stripe in the same color!

Now I’m wondering if I owe my gift-giver an apology…….

Seasons for WPC

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If I can just hold on a few more weeks…..although I noticed these photos were taken before I knew how to set (and/or remove) the date on my camera. (Should be in late May.)

Just don’t tell anyone these pictures are taken in the Northwest. We like it that everyone else thinks there is nothing but gloomy RAIN up here!!!

Seasons for WPC

Seasons  in the Northwest, especially the transition we are in now from Winter to Spring, are so unpredictable, labile, not necessarily related to the calendar..

One day it’s this!

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And the very next day, it can be this!

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My Grand-kids call this the Pink Snow (under the Camellia tree), that comes after the white snow.

 

Vibrant for WPC: gift to my sister

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One of the best gifts in my whole life is having the privilege of house-sitting every year for my sister. They live in paradise….San Juan Island, WA. They go sailing while we tend their Bamboo Farm and arguably, the most spectacular gardens in the Northwest. One year I photographed just a few of their flowers (few, meaning hundreds) and then for Christmas, made them a calendar. These are the 12 photos I picked.