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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Not my usual style of photography. It came out of the camera that way. Wonder what I did. Do you like it?

Two red tulips bloom in the garden

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A fine bucket of tulips, at the Pike Place Market.

A big bunch of red tulips with delicate yellow edges at Seattle’s Pike Place Market

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A bouquet of red and white fringed tulips, starting to fade.

Red and white parrot tulip with deep fringes, against a black background

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From last year’s visit to he Skagit Valley tulip festival, north of Seattle: a row of tulip goodness.

Blood red tulips with white edges bloom where they’re planted

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I’ve been sick with that awful bug that’s going around, so here’s a shot from last year’s Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, north of Seattle, WA. This year the warm weather is bringing earlier blooming up there in Skagit County.

Many colors of tulips bloom in the spring Tulip Festival near Mt. Vernon, WA

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