Nailed It!

Usually I see scenes like this one but before I can get anywhere near close enough the heron will fly away or someone walks into the shot but not this time; this time it was mine. - Fern

Broad Street

A little bit of blue sky makes my heart happy. - Fern

Room With a View

There's an office building on the corner of Douglas St. and Johnson St. that has the best view from the bathroom on the 7th floor looking south. - Fern

More Sea Blush

I wrote yesterday that, "the Sea Blush are painting the hillsides with broad splashes of pink..." but the Sea Blush photo I posted doesn't capture that well so here's another photo of the Sea Blush on the slopes of Highrock Park where you can see how they grow in beds where the glacial grooves in the rock have gathered a little soil. Highrock Park is basically just a huge rock with only the shallowest pockets of soil in these grooves. The green in the foreground of the above photo is moss that clings to the bare rock beneath. Over the next few weeks the pink of the Sea Blush will be replaced by the blue of Camas Lilies that grow in the same grooves.

More Highrock

While the Sea Blush are painting the hillsides with broad splashes of pink, in the more wooded parts of Highrock Park these lovely bushes are covered with white blossoms. (I can't remember what these are called. Anyone?)