The Laburnum Arbor at Bayview Farm & Garden attracts visitors each year. The climbing vine is also known as hanging chain tree
I’m wearing my personal chef hat this week, cooking two meals a day for six days, nurturing Christina Baldwin’s ‘The Self as the Source of the Story’ writing group. With all the many ingredients and menus competing for attention in my mind, there’s little room left for writing. I give you this week a gift for the senses in the form of David Welton’s excellent photos of Whidbey’s spring flowers. OMG! After the dark and cold February we endured, the colors of our flowers and trees seem like a miracle. A friend who once lived in the Seattle area, but moved away due to the depression she suffered from the Northwest’s sunless winters, once said that we get amnesia here in the Northwest: we forgot the gray and damp and are blissed beyond belief with the longer days, the color, the sun, bird song, bunny love and the vistas. Happy Spring Everyone!
The full bloom of cherry trees frame this British phone box on Langley’s First Street.These skunk-musk-smelling ‘Swamp Lanterns’ grow in wetlands.Native perennial skunk cabbage gets its name from its musky scent. This scent attracts the same pollinators–flies, typically– who also land on plants that smell like rotting meat. The scent travels easily because it is carried on warm air currents that rise from the spathe, the hoodlike yellow leaf that encircles the knobbly spadix, which is actually the plant’s flower.Soaking in the sun and color, a bike ride during springtime can be intoxicating for the senses.Framed under a tree of pink blossoms, this horse grazes amid spring bliss.Wizard Tom Lindsay’s bubble art magnifies fruit tree blossoms.The island’s creamy white and pink magnolia trees originated from ancestors native to the Southern United StatesPlum trees add color to the island in early spring.The Bixby family farm on the west side of the island.Native rhododendrons grow throughout Whidbey Island. Now is the time to look at the cultivated varieties in a spectrum of pattern and color as well.
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How very beautiful – thank you!
Glad you enjoyed our spring beauty, Cheri!