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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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 