I took a walk in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle last week.

This old-fashioned rose with a single row of petals sometimes is prettier than the huge ruffled kind. Below that is ceanothus (see-an-OH-thus), or Wild Lilac in California, or California Lilac up here in Seattle. It also has a sweet scent and can become quite a big shrubby plant, covered in blue in the spring. When I lived in Northern California, it was common and wild, and bloomed with yellow broom on the rolling hills. Pretty nice!

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A recent trip to Ft. Worden in Port Townsend yielded lots of fun photos and magnificent scenery. How’s this for a view?

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I like this one very much, even a week later (how quickly we move on!) and I’m tagging it Best Post of the Week.

Taken almost the same time as the photo below, this rainbow really “floated my boat.” I have seen a few rainbows in my life, but I think this one was in the most scenic setting ever. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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I like this photo very much (although it was hard deciding between this one and the one of the reflections on the ship’s hull below) and I am tagging it Best Post of the Week.

When we were in Port Townsend recently, the weather seemed much less solid gray than here in Seattle. The sun actually came out once in awhile, and provided these lovely reflections at the boatyard.

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We were lucky enough to be able to slip away for just a couple of days to Port Townsend, Washington. It was a first visit, but won’t be the last. The weather was alternately sunny and rainy, making magnificent skies and vistas, and even some rainbows which I will post later. This view of the Strait of Juan de Fuca is from the dock at Fort Worden. Back here in the gray, drizzly weather in Seattle, just looking at it makes me smile.

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I’m posting two recent photos of my garden of the back border. The top one with the rhodies was taken earlier in the month, and the lower one was taken in mid-month (the geum is the red round flowers). They have a very different feel, don’t they? Which do you prefer?

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I like this post a LOT, especially the bottom photo, so I am tagging this Best Post of the Week.

Just got back from a getaway in Port Townsend, WA, a very lovely seaside town. This lilac was blooming in the yard of the place where we stayed. The sun peeked out and I ran out to get the photo. A minute later all was gray, the way spring skies can be.

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We’ve had mostly very gray skies lately, and cool temperatures, but we did have a sunbreak or two and I got to get this photo of our pink dogwood tree.

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Couldn’t resist this shadow shot, taken in my backyard last week. Visit Shadow Shot Sunday for more shadows of all kinds. It’s so creative there! Go to Outdoor Wednesday and Scenic Sunday while you’re at it.

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Our pink dogwood tree is in full bloom. What a lovely sight. I am grateful to the people who planted this tree many years ago. Plant trees whenever you can! If you won’t be there to see it in its full glory, someone else will. And you never know, do you? Time has a way of slipping away so fast.

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