Always Spring Somewhere
One of the things I love about the Pacific Northwest is that there is such a wide range of climates.
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Wildflowers
Trillium Lake – Part of Portland’s Mountain Playground
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have already written and published the first two blogs related to my hike over the weekend along the part
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