Ladybugs in the Garden

I released 100 live bugs into my garden yesterday.  They kindly stuck around so I could use them as models in my currently flowering plants.  Spring in the Pacific Northwest is the Garden of Eden.

The White and Cherry Blossom Tree on the Key Peninsula

Pink!

Ezekiel 7:10

“Behold the day, behold, it is come! The morning is gone forth, the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.”

Coffee and cherry blossoms from the Key Peninsulas, Washington

Spring Cherry Blossoms and Moss

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ~Auguste Rodin

 

Spring in Lakebay Washington

 

February Inspirational

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

~Robert H. Schuller

Spring tulips at Thanksgiving Point, Utah.

Happy Mother’s Day!

A day late, and a dollar short.  But I was spending the day fishing with my children at Bay Lake (Lakebay, WA) and just couldn’t resist a few shots of momma and her brew.

 

Weyerhaeuser Rhododendron and Bonsai Park

 

 

 

 

Bonsai

 

Blossom

 

 

 

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Hal Borland

 

Spring in Issaquah

Lace. Issaquah, WA

Pink escorts on the road.

Bending at the Cedar River, Renton, WA

 

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke