The photo of the beautiful rhododendron you see above was taken on one of my last backpacking trips two years ago. I love hiking the river valleys of the Olympics in June when the woodland flowers are in bloom. They bring light that filters through the forest canopy after a long gray winter in westernContinue reading “In Praise of Pink”
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The Way of Flowers
God sleeps in minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in humans. Sanskrit It is an odd day to be writing about flowers, this darkest day of the year, the winter solstice. Where I write to you from the Okanogan Highlands in northeastern Washington snow blankets the ground, and winter storm warnings areContinue reading “The Way of Flowers”
In Praise of Buttercups
The bloom of a flower has changed the world and made it ours. Loren Eisley in The Immense Journey They are certainly not spectacular. . .bright yellow splashes of color that appear just as the ground is becoming soggy from snowmelt and a few straggling green blades of grass are showing up for spring. HereContinue reading “In Praise of Buttercups”
The Solitude Trail 