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Always Spring Somewhere

September 5, 2011March 16, 2012 admin 1 Comment fireweed, lupine, Mt. Adams, Mt. St. Helens, volcano, Washington, Wildflowers

One of the things I love about the Pacific Northwest is that there is such a wide range of climates.

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Trillium Lake – Part of Portland’s Mountain Playground

August 21, 2011March 16, 2012 admin 3 Comments boating, Camping, Cross country, hiking, Mount Hood, Mt. Hood, Oregon, Photography, Skiing, Snowshoe, Trillium Lake, Wildflowers

With the mercury rising to the highest point so far this year in the Portland metropolitan area, it was time

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Larch Mountain – Sherrard Point

July 12, 2011March 19, 2012 admin 0 Comments Bear Grass, Castilleja, Erythronium, Larch Mountain. Sherrard Point, Mt. Adams, Mt. Hood, Oregon, Penstemen, Wildflowers, Xerophyllum

I have written about Sherrard Point before, so will not repeat myself, but this place is such an amazing place

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Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge

July 4, 2011March 19, 2012 admin 2 Comments Dragonfly, heron, Nutria, Oregon, Tualatin River, Wildflowers, Wildlife Refuge

This has been a great week. I call a week good when I find a place that I have never

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Amazing Wildflowers

June 29, 2011March 19, 2012 admin 3 Comments Bagby Hot Springs, Bear Grass, Oregon, Wildflowers, Xerophyllum tenax

Wildflowers amaze me. We use such a small selection of the available plants in our yards and yet there are

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Cooper Mountain Nature Park

May 1, 2011March 19, 2012 Brian Beaverton, Brian Bailey, Cooper Mountain, Nature Preserve, Oregon, Park, Wildflowers

I bet you have never heard of it, even if you live in Beaverton. I only found out about it

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A Wildflower Favorite – The Bleeding Heart

April 27, 2011February 29, 2012 Brian Bleeding heart, Columbia Gorge, Dicentra, Gardening, Lamprocapnos, Wildflowers

Call them Bleeding Hearts, Lady in a Bath, Dutchman’s Trousers, Venus’s Car, Lyre Flower, but at the end of the

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A plant as amazing as it is smelly

April 25, 2011February 29, 2012 Brian Columbia Gorge, Lysichiton americanus, Oregon, Skunk Cabbage, Western, Wildflowers, Yellow

This is no normal cabbage, even though it is sometimes called the Yellow Cabbage. It more popular name is Skunk

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Rowena Plateau and McCall Preserve

April 14, 2011May 28, 2012 Brian Columbia Gorge, deer, hiking, McCall, Oregon, plateau, Preserve, Rowena, Wildflowers, Wildlife

After completing the section of the Historic Columbia Gorge Highway that includes the Mosier Twin Tunnels, you can continue in

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Hiking in the Columbia Gorge – Wildflowers along Mosier Twin Tunnels

April 13, 2011March 21, 2012 Brian Columbia Gorge, hiking, Mosier, Oregon, Wildflowers

I have already written and published the first two blogs related to my hike over the weekend along the part

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