before
after some paint & landscaping
Sun's morning kiss
Rosa 'Chrysler Imperial'
Happy Father's Day
Pause and enjoy
Preparing for Mad Hatter's Garden Brunch & Tea Party
Whole Bran Muffins w/ apples & walnuts; Spinach & Feta Quiche
... Fruit, Rosemary Yukon Golds, Grilled Italian Sausage
Mad Hatter's Neighborhood Ladies Brunch
Mad Hatter's Garden Tour Fri, 19JUN09
Mad Hatter's Hat
Styrax japonicus (Japanese Snowbell) tree
Japanese Snow bell closeup
Rosa "Rambing Rector'
R. 'Rambling Rector' closeup
CBO Deficits
Oregon coast highway looking east
Armeria maritima pink blossoms
Oregon coast lava flows
fog's aura of mystery
a closer look
Morning fog 3JUN09
David Austin 'Wenlock'
find the eye in the Sambucus
today's picked treasures
Viburnum plicatum 'Mariesii'
'After' we planted
Before we planted
rhododendron and Chionanthus virginicus
Alberta spruce, Fringe tree, Lydia broom
walking past the black bamboo towards Viburnum
Beech and Carex elata 'Bowles Golden'
Papaver orientale 'Mrs. Perry'
Pale Tiger Swallowtail, 1st seen this season
pendulous clusters of Laburnum watereri
Clematis 'The President'
Allium & Hypericum androsaemum
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Diablo'
Allium and Carex elata 'Bowles Golden'
After we cleared the brush, we marked the paths
After 13 years
spinach & lettuce garden bouquet
all fresh greens from the garden
beautiful peppers for chicken chili
Dinner in the gazebo
Early morning walk
Davidia involucrata
Chinese Tree Peony
Garden companion
Malus 'Prairifire' blossom
Paeonia suffruticosa (Chinese tree peony)
Fresh: grilled halibut, salad, sauteed radish leaves
looks like rain tomorrow
5MAY09
Diamond Peak Wilderness
Getting ready to bike
Who is taking the photo?
Deschutes River at Sunriver
Deschutes at Sunriver
duck's end
Their broods
cinnamon teal
beautiful habitat
Isn't he great?
3MAY09 morning, Sunriver
30APR09 and frost lingers
fresh from the garden... for our trip
favorite lilac
yellow finch outside my window
deer in the garden
walking the fence line
southern range
Ron's pasture
23APR09
Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, snap peas
potatoes, not planted
onions and sweet peas
radish, spinach, mesclun in raised beds
carrots and black seeded simpson
Spiraea and ground covers
love those colors of spring
'PJM' Rhody
Helping K & J with landscaping
The boy are makin' a plan
The boyz still plannin'
"Yes, I know what I'm doing"
20APRIL09
14APR09 morning snow
13APR09 cloud formations over valley
Delicately complex is this gorgeous Frittalaria
West Coast Lady (Vanessa annabella) and Aubrieta
Rhododendron "PJM"
Uphill toward the Magnolia and plum
Japanese Flowering Yoshino (Prunus x yedoensis)
Garden Springs To Life! Rejoice!
NY Strip, crimini mushrooms... a fine wine
Thundercloud Plum & bees abuzz
Morning's frost 'n fog 4APR09
Tear Drop Memorial, Bayonne, NJ
wake up and smell the fragrance
Magnolia stellata 29MAR09
morning 21MAR09
Bamboo grove beginning
mesmerizing atmosphere 23FEB09
Americans don't care, he said
Morning rainbow 18FEB09
hat tip: Iowahawk blog "Generational Theft Act"
She didn't want to leave
Meatballs for dinner
Pasta tonight
Enchanting evening sky 29JAN09
garden cleanup begins
stones collected along the coast
tumbled and polished stones
agates and semi-precious stones
Look who came to visit
American bald eagle, 13JAN09
10JAN09 western sky color
and to the south
she's smiling in the east
climb down south of Beverly Beach
Searching for agates
Agates, no; beauty, yes
Beverly Beach
Yaquina Lighthouse
Yes, carefully descended
wind and sand
Nature's artwork
4JAN09, dawn's frozen city view
and west
21DEC08 snowfall
21DEC08 valley view
Christmas Card 2008
unusual 14DEC08
an evening fire
Rosa 'Mozart'
Ginkgo biloba, 17NOV08
Evening western sky
Western sky
Our country road
Astoria, OR harbor
View near North Head lighthouse
NH light keepers house
North Head Lighthouse
NH lighthouse view
NH backside
Cape Disappointment & Ft Canby State Park
Cape Disappointment view
Long Beach, WA boardwalk
Long Beach, WA
Potlatch St Park
Potlatch & Hood Canal
Hood Canal map
Discovery Bay
beneath Deception Bridge
Deception Bridge east side
Deception Pass west side
pan right toward the bridge
pan right again
Deception Pass Bridge & Canoe Pass
Capt Whidbey Inn
Penn Cove in Coupeville
Admiralty Head Lighthouse
Fort Casey State Park
Ft Casey gun emplacement
Ft Casey fortification
a bunker view
Crescent Lake, WA
Crescent Lake
Hoh Rain Forest
inside the rain forest
epiphytic moss adorn the trees
Hemlock seedling sprouts on nurse log
Stilts
nature-felled 200' Sitka
shelf fungus
crystal clear forest water and plant life
birch grove outside Hoh Rain Forest
Fruit from our trees
Early morning glow
Fall south garden
Rosa 'Graham Thomas'
Pampas evening glow
A stroke of morning light
Fall color begins
Carrie & Coral bark
Rosa rugosa rose hip
Callicarpa bodinieri 'Profusion'
strawberries 'n blackberries
Waldport, OR bridge
Pacific coast
g. 'Anne Folkard' & Giant impatiens
Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor'
Beautiful old-fashioned Peonies
Phormium, peonies, and foliage
Caryopteris and R. 'Summer Wine'
Clematis and Phlox
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Diablo', Daylily 'Lavender Deal', Hypericum
Rose and Spiraea 'Anthony Waterer'
Stargazer lily
Dragonfly
Campanula lactiflora 'Pritchard's Variety', lilies and poppies
Campanula latifolia 'Brantwood'
Delphinium
Geranium 'Johnson's Blue'
Alstroemeria & Salvia patens
Paths of Lavender
L. Angustifolia 'Hidcote Blue' & Painter Lady
Pond redo
Koi pond
View s.e. from Seaside room
Seaside, OR
Astoria, OR bridge into WA
The final stretch
Near the jetty, Florence, OR
Our friends' feline, 'Tsunami'
Heceta Head
Path of roses
Rosa 'Gertrude Jekyll'
Rosa 'Wenlock'
R. 'St. Cecelia'
Paperbark Maple
R. 'Queen Elizabeth'
Roses, clematis and pergola
Salix, bearded iris, & Anthriscus sylvestris 'Raven's Wing'
Foxglove, poppy, & Carex
Helictotrichon, Hebe, 'Coral Bells'
Rhody's in May
more Rhody's
Allium & Bearded Iris
love those Allium
Barberry and Viburnum
Spiraea, G. 'Johnson's Blue, & banana emerges
Laburnum anagyroides. . . 'Chain tree'
Bend, OR: Broken Top & Three Sisters
Mt. Jefferson
Toward McKenzie
Kitchen remodel, before
After
Remodel before
and after
South garden ground covers
Spiraea, Tsuga, phlox, golden barberry
Early a.m., 20 Apr08
Facing west
Northeast
April's Winter wonderland
From the bedroom, left
... then right
the kitchen's view west
Tulips give their nod
Beginning to melt
Frost bitten weeping cherry
Struttin' their stuff
27 March 2008
Taxus baccata tips of frost
The sun strokes the snow
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum
Douglas C-47
MiG-15
The Spruce Goose
Cargo area
Underneath the wing
B-71 under the wing
Home of the 'Spruce Goose'
Toward San Luis Obispo
Lake Shasta
Craggy granite top
Castle Crag Park
Castle Crag
glimpse of Mt Shasta
Mt Shasta
The Siskiyou, ahead
The Siskiyou
Oregon ahead
SS and Medicare unfunded
Flight into Salt Lake City
Douglas fir topples
coming home to snow
Blossoming Hebe, 6JAN08
Carrie and 'Coral Bark'
Lawrence Welk Resort
Acorn woodpecker
Awaiting its prey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Miscanthus sinensis 'Morning Light'
Family Nechviadavicius and Tumsys (1921)
End of February, to...
mid Summer, and...
now Fall
Acer griseum, 'Paperbark' maple
Coral bark maple
Fall grasses
S&P Monthly chart
Sea of clouds
Ginkgo biloba
G. biloba fan-shaped foliage
Dawn Redwood and Red Oak
Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood'
Fothergilla x 'Mt. Airy'
Mountain Quail
October Magnolia
'Swane's Golden' and Fall morning light
Colors of Autumn
Cortaderia selloana (Pampas grass)
Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil Salad
Old Japanese maple (left) and Norway maple
Air Force One, Reagan Library
Dahlia continues into fall
Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Fountain grass"
Rainbow over the valley
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
Acer rubrum 'Fairview Flame'
Early morning fall sky
Phormium, Sedum and Petunia
Sedum, Echinacea & Salvia uliginosa
Dahlia and Knautia
Harvest Moon
Harvest Moon and fountain
Gazebo's view
Cupressus sempervirens 'Swane's Golden'
Dogwood, September and hangin' on
Datura
Nicotiana sylvestris
electric Fuchia
September sunset, Pacific NW
Persicaria orientale (aka Polygonum orientale)
aka Kiss-Me-Over-The-Garden-Gate
Outside the studio window
An unexpected visitor outside the window
Hovering over the valley
Another visitor
Overhead view
Balancing the sky's canvas
B.C. ferry crossing Howe Sound
Beginning of Howe Sound
Deak's Creek from snowfall runoff
Stawamus Chief Mt
Cheakamus Canyon
Cheakamus Canyon River
1000' waterfall
Smiling surprise in the wilderness
Whistler
A Happy Visitor
Basalt canyon walls
Whistler Rocky Mountaineer
Vancouver, BC, downtown
Today's Garden Yield
Park adjacent to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Garden, Vancouver, BC
Flautist at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Garden
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Garden, another view
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Garden, amazing work of art
Lavandula angustifolio 'Hidcote' and the Painter Lady
Thyme in the Garden
Thymus pseudolanuginosus (Woolly thyme)
T. citriodorous 'variegata'
'Silver thyme' amidst the creeping
Cornus kousa (Flowering Dogwood)
C. Kousa early June
Cornus stolonifera (Red Twig)
C. stolonifera (Yellow Twig)
Anise Swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon)
Delphiniums, Anise Swallowtail, & Cephalaria gigantea
Rosa 'Polka' peering through Fennel
Clematis 'HF Young'
C. 'HF Young', Caryopteris, and Helictotrichon
Clematis 'Nellie Moser'
C. 'Nellie Moser', Lonicera nitida 'Baggesens Gold'
Clematis pitcheri
Clematis recta 'purpurea' blossom
C. recta, Delphiniums, Calamagrostis acutiflora, Miscanthus floridulus
Soft clouds of seed heads
Compare mid Feb garden
to 4 months later, June 2007
Depoe Bay, OR, Father's Day 2007
Finding treasures at the coast
Wisteria sinensis with flying pig, Maaaa
W. sinensis fragrant blossom
'Maaaa'
Iris germanica 'Snow Cloud'
I. germanica 'Portrait of Laurie'
I. germanica 'Lacy Snowflake'
Caryopterus, delphiniums, foxglove, marjoram, ornamental grasses...
June 1 Garden
Weigela florida 'Java Red'
Weigela florida 'variegata'
Rhody, Viburnum plicatum 'Mariesii', Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'
Ramygala, Lithuania Memorial to those who gave their lives
Early Morning City View
Resident Bullfrog
Planting Acer palmatum 'Sango Kaku', a Coral Bark Maple
Lady 'n Moss
Rosa "Summer Wine"
Rhododendron 'Ramapo' with Phlox subulata
Cercis canadensis
Pacific NW Evening Sky
NW Corner "before" photo
NW Corner additions
NW Corner continues
Chinese Tree Peony #1
Paeonia suffruticosa
Chinese Tree Peony #2
Evening Walk
Malus 'Priarifire'
Cedrus Deodara, Malus 'Priarifire', Ligustrum x vicaryi
Spectacular combination
Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Pendulum'
Clematis macropetala 'Blue Bird'
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Dart's Gold', Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca', Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'
Lilac's Valley View
April surprise
Azalea and ground covers
Syringa vulgaris (lilacs)
Prunus x yedoensis (Yoshino cherry tree blossoms)
Trillium ovatum (western wake robin)
Trillium, aging
Erythronium oreganum (trout or fawn lily)
Helleborus x hybridus (Lenten Rose)
Easter season in the garden
Rhododendron 'PJM'
Spiraea prunifolia 'Bridalwreath'
Carrie, Magnolia, and Plum at Dawn
Carrie, Magnolia, and Plum
Corylus avellana 'Contorta' Harry's Walking Stick
Crocus with visitor
'The Train Station'
Carrie in the Snow
Our valley view
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