A fancy kind of abutilon (‘Tiger’s Eye’), with dark purple bud casings. Seen (of course!) at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory.

Red, yellow and orange veins, and a dark, velvety bud casing in this small tropical flower.

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On Capitol Hill in Seattle today, a LARGE bunch of balloons.

Man carrying bunch of many red balloons

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Had a great time vending at the Plant Sale at the Lake Wilderness Arboretum in Maple Valley, WA last weekend. This view of red Japanese maples in the afternoon light looked almost like fall colors.

Backlit Japanese maples in the Lake Wilderness Arboretum in early May

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I was at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory last week. These pretty tropical flowers, which I can’t begin to describe, are maybe an inch tall (2.5 cm). Anyone know the name?

Small red and yellow tropical flowers at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle

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Seattle does have a lot of gray skies, but we can handle it when they look like this.

Plenty of rain in these clouds over the Seattle skyline

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On May 1, I was walking on Capital Hill in Seattle and happened across this Native American ceremony. Not sure exactly what was going on, but there was chanting and much fragrant smudge smoke. Not your everyday kind of thing!

Chanting and smudging in this Native American event in Seattle on May Day

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This is in my backyard.

Pink dogwood tree in full bloom, with red rhododendrons in the foreground

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These delicate fuschia flowers are from Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, and one of the ten images in my new line of Notecards. All the images on the notecards are from my book, “Flowers of Volunteer Park Conservatory.”

‘Mrs. Lovell Swisher’ fuschia flowers

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Here’s another new notecard, a spray of unusual phalaenopsis orchids. All ten notecard images are from my book, “Flowers of Volunteer Park Conservatory.”

Red and magenta orchids with yellow edges and spots at the Volunteer Park Conservatory

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Hope you are not tired of tulips. See the snow in the distance in this one? Here are many rows of colorful tulips in the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, a perfect illustration of the laws of perspective.

Rows of tulips converge at a point on the horizon

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