I adore peonies. These delicate flowers are from my garden.

Pink peony with bright yellow center

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The columbines look very good this year. They respond very well to an acid fertilizer in the spring, and the flowers are big and plentiful. Here is one pretty one in a shaft of sunlight, with some rose campion in the foreground.

Yellow and red columbine (aquilegia) in the shade

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A week or two ago, driving around Burien, WA, I saw this house. Color to the max.

Sky blue house with red and pinky-purple rhododendrons

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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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Went into a neat bookstore and bakery, Ada’s, on 15th Ave. in Capitol Hill in Seattle. A very different kind of place, just right for science nerds of all kinds. I loved the Calder-esque mobile hanging up there, and the pages of text make it a “bookmobile” of a different sort.

Hanging sculpture in a bookstore in Seattle

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From my Florida trip in February, a skyscraper in Miami on a sunny day.

Sky and clouds reflected in glass-walled building in Miami, Florida

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I’m excited to announce a brand-new line of inexpensive square Notecards, made with images from my book, “Flowers of Volunteer Park Conservatory.” So many people have asked for them! Please see the Notecards page on this site for all ten images. Thank you for looking!

White florist Cyclamen has graceful shapes, against a black background

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I don’t usually have difficulty choosing one image to post, but sometimes I just can’t decide. The one with the sun showing, or not?

Plum tree blooming against a sunny springtime sky

Plum blossoms on the tree in springtime

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One of my all-time fave cloudscapes.

Layers of orangey-pink and white clouds in the Florida sky at dusk

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A fancy dress store on Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale’s answer to Beverly Hills. In color, and black and white. Your preference?

Flounced, feathered, jeweled and gathered white dresses by Zola Keller in a Las Olas shop window

Fancy dresses for a ball

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