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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A break from the Florida pictures to bring you something from today’s visit to the Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Isn’t this something?

A rainbow of flowers arranged in a golden frame

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We visited the Bonnet House in Ft. Lauderdale. Here is a door that fascinated me.

Two shades of yellow adorn this building in Florida

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I need sun! April and tulips, I can’t wait!

Many colors of tulips in a display bed, in bright sun

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Blooming today outside the Seattle Design Center:

Simple white hellebore with a yellow center blooms in January in Seattle

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This southern view of Puget Sound and Vashon Island was taken around the block from my house. Even a little time looking at the sky is a good thing on a clear day, especially.

Layers of sunset clouds at a scenic overlook near Seattle, WA

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Driving on the Seattle Viaduct, soon to be no more, the stop-and-go traffic let me take this photo. The “golden hour,” truly.

Seattle’s Maritime Building in late afternoon winter sunlight

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I really need to get a witch hazel tree. My neighbors have one and it smells fabulous.

Yellow, fragrant witch hazel flowers bloom in January in Seattle

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Tomorrow is a big game for Seahawks fans. I really like the flags all around town with the simple “12” design, showing fandom. Seattleites will be delirious if they win tomorrow and go to the Super Bowl for the second year in a row. Good luck, Hawks!

The Twelfth Man flag is everywhere in Seattle

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Scrolling through my photo archives, I found this image of huge, tropical brugmansia (Angels Trumpet) flowers from an August 2010 shoot at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory. See how the buds are yellow but the open flowers are pink? Wild, no?

Different colors on the same plant of Ecuador Pink brugmansia, or Angels Trumpet

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