It is a glorious spring, probably the finest I've experienced in my four years in Seattle. And I'm too busy enjoying it. The re...

I know one is not supposed to peek through other people's fences - after all, that is why they are there, to give privacy from curio...

I'm full of cold, and in no form of reporting anything more advanced - but the Royal Azaleas from Korea, Rhododendron Schlippenbachiis...

I've caught a huge cold and feel miserable, so this view from my kitchen windows is about as much I can manage to blog despite all sp...

A dripping Magnolia stellata in my backyard - she seems to take the weather better than I do... If you can't beat them, join th...

I've been a bit unfair to the local weather; after all my whining about the perpetual rain, we actually had a couple of gloriously ...

It is really all too windy today for taking any photographs, but I nevertheless had to check what's going on with my star magnolia in ...

If we poor Seattleites don't even have a season called spring (see my previous post - but today, the sun actually peeked through th...

Rain, rain go away - come again another day... Earlier this week, the Seattle Times ran an article that exactly expressed thoughts th...

I've just discovered a new tulip favorite : Tulipa polychroma,  a wild species from the rugged mountainsides of Iran and Afghanista...