The Seattle Design Center in Georgetown has some of the most magnificent pink trees I’ve ever seen. They are planting new ones, but they look so puny compared to the old giants. The first view is from inside the skybridge, which you can see in the second photo.

Pink trees line the streets, seen from the Seattle Design Center on a rainy day

Huge old pink blossom trees at the Seattle Design Center

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It’s been an early spring in the Pacific Northwest, and we so appreciate it!

Pink and white Japanese magnolia begin to bloom against a blue sky

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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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At Flamingo Gardens near Ft. Lauderdale in Florida, there were lots of…flamingos! Does anyone know the name of the white birds? Later: American White Ibis. Thanks, Kitty!

Colorful flamingos and ibises drinking at a water hole

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Right across from my house, the pink tree magnificence, at least when the sun comes out. An early spring this year. Sorry, Boston!

A cherry tree in full bloom, with some bare branches behind it

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Yet another ravishing flower from the recent Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Do enter NWFGS in the search field at right for more lovelies.

Red and yellow spotted orchids. Even the bud has spots!

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Here is another post about something you just don’t see every day. This giant sedum heart, at least ten or fifteen feet tall (I heard it weighed several tons!), was a big hit in the lobby area of the Northwest Flower & Garden Show. To see several more floral images that I recently posted from last year’s show, just put NWFGS in the search box at right.

Gigantic heart with thousands of sedum plants looking like flowers, at the NWFGS last week

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At the Northwest Flower & Garden Show there was something you just don’t see every day, a “wedding cake” made entirely of plant material. Isn’t this slice of “cake” adorable? Be sure to scroll down a few photos for several more I posted last week from last year’s show, or just put NWFGS in the search box at right.

Here’s a no-calorie version of a slice of faux chocolate cake, with moss and flowers

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The Northwest Flower & Garden Show has ended but the photos of flowers live on. Here are two beauties: a bookcase full of bouquets and a ravishing and exotic protea bloom below. Be sure to scroll down a few photos for several more I posted last week from last year’s show, or just put NWFGS in the search box at right.

Several bouquets in pale tones and shades of turquoise decorate a bookcase at the NWFGS

Thrilling and otherworldly protea blossom in a bouquet at the NWFGS

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If you ever get to South Florida, visiting the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is a must. Here a young woman gets ready to celebrate her Quinceañera.

Girl in pink dress poses on steps at Vizcaya in Florida

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