The Painted Boat in Misty Rain pavilion. 'Boat hall pavilions' were used to express one's desire for secluded life. Fishermen...

View from the Moon Bridge towards the Strolling Pond Garden. Last Friday was Veterans Day, so my family and I decided to celebrate the...

I don't usually nick anyone's pictures, but will make an exception here out of nostalgic reasons. I am Finnish, after all. * ...

I always love plants in disguise, the ones that aren't easily recognized; I guess a bit of challenge adds flavor to anything one pur...

November in the Kruckeberg Botanic Gardens in Shoreline near Seattle. No late autumn gloom in sight anywhere, just mounds of flourishing...

Yesterday morning was the coldest so far this autumn. A smoky fog raising from the still warmish Lake Washington blanketed the surrounding...

The perfect weather for photographing.

The spindle tree, Euonymus alata, in my frontyard; I love how the colours shift from the brightest crimson to the deepest burgundy in one...

Gentiana asclepiadea, the Willow gentian, is still sending out some flowers, now much bluer than the skies... No frost yet, but the ra...

A tap on my own back again; my second article was just published in the Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin, which I am very happy about....