It’s certainly a fine time to be in the old familiar places of the northwest. The Evergreen State is at its lush floral best, the cool-weather walks already impossible in Texas by mid-June are still a fine evening pleasure for scoping out the neighborhood sculptures and specimen plantings in their cottage-garden settings, ferries ply the waters of Puget Sound, and even Mt. Rainier comes out of hiding behind various veils of cloud from time to time.
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Wonderful photos, Kathryn! Those iris are beautiful but the garden in front of the gray house is spectacular. I’d love to visit occasionally from spring through fall just to see it change with the seasons. I have to believe that a person with such a great garden must have considered the seasons, too, when planning it. Thanks for posting these. That photo of Mount Rainier is really stunning.
Yes, northwestern gardeners have such a long and even growing season that they do tend to plot for year-round color and texture and variety. You’d love Seattle anyhow–great eating town! 🙂
I’m pretty pleased with the mountain view, too–it’s cropped from a LONG distance shot just over the trees and houses in my sister’s neighborhood in Seattle, with my charming new pocket camera. Yay for simple technology!
Such beauty!
🙂 Mandy
Thank you, my sweet!
xoxo
Kathryn
What can I say…but lovely, lovely, lovely! Lush and green and flowery…water sparkling…and mountain top glowing…
I visited Seattle long ago…and loved it!
Though our trip was (now) only a month ago, it’s already too long since. Hope you can get back there too at some point.
Thank you for these fabulously beautiful photos, KI, my flower…
Hard *not* to get pretty pictures of such beauties!