Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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I almost missed it. This checkered lily (Fritillaria meleagris) with its slender stem and bright down-facing blossom is no show stopper at The Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, where I found her a month ago. This time of year it’s the rhodies, azaleas, and dogwood blooms causing traffic jams on the paths. Checkered lilly sits…
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Sometimes Wisteria outdoes herself. You never quite know when she’ll show up. And then one morning you step outside to see her gorgeous drapey perfection almost crooking a finger and saying: “Hey, girl, isn’t it cool that I’m smack in the middle of the back gate and ready for my photo shoot? Do get my…
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The Booker Rebellion came to me as I drove on a two-lane highway somewhere between Alsea and the ocean. I had been thinking about my nieces and nephews in the magic of a temperate rainforest, all rich and dark and riding the steep ridges of the Oregon Coast Range. The kids I adore, the landscape…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 