Summertime at Jello Mold Farm
June 28, 2016
Here are some more photos from my June visit to Jello Mold Farm. Lots of gorgeous flowers in bloom. I never tire of the beauty held in these fertile acres.
Wordless Wednesdays: 12 Views of Love-in-a-Mist
June 24, 2015
This Is June
June 10, 2014
“This is June, the month of grass and leaves. . . . I feel a little fluttered in my thoughts, as if I might be too late. Each season is but an infinitesimal point. It no sooner comes than it is gone. It has no duration. It simply gives a tone and hue to my thought.”
— Henry David Thoreau, from his journals
The Earth at Jello Mold Farm Laughs in Flowers
July 23, 2013
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
— Claude Monet
There was so much to see at Jello Mold Farm at this time of year. It’s a busy time for flower growers. These Skagit Valley flower fields were bursting with exuberance and beauty. Zinnias, dahlias, sunflowers, bee balm . . . they all shout “summer!”
And always, flower gardens remind me of time passing . . . for everything there is a season.
Walking the Color Wheel: Seattle’s Summer Blues
July 26, 2012
A Chaos of Beauty
June 28, 2012
“What a chaos of beauty there is upon a June morning.”
— Louise Beebe Wilder, Colour in My Garden
And here are a few snapshots taken out of the chaos of color and beauty in Seattle right now:
Bloomin’ Summer
July 16, 2009
Here’s what’s blooming on a recent neighborhood walk.

Love-in-a-mist

Crocosmia

Purple poppy

Spotted lily

Desert candle
I am continually astounded by the beauty and diversity that surrounds me.
“Each time I go outside the world is different. This has happened all my life.”
— Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser, Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry