Early Balsamroot and Lupine

My favorite spring combination of wildflowers.

Blue Sky Aspens

Rainy days are good for the garden but I am wishing for more blue sky days like this one a few days ago.

Spring wildflowers and April snow

Long-billed Curlews

We saw this migrating flock of shorebirds in a farm field just south of Soap Lake on highway 17 as we returned from the Sandhill Crane Festival. They were all foraging or resting.

Early Spring Walk

We walked in the hills above the Methow with our dogs and friends from near and far one day last week. We saw the early Buttercups - the first wildflowers of the year for me - and explored an abandoned house.

Looking west

The view down valley

Sagebrush seeds

A couple of lensbaby images

Late winter, early spring, mud sesason.