Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
In addition to wild daisies I showed you a couple of weeks ago, we also have lots of poppies blooming these days. Here’s a combination of golden and asiatic poppies blooming on a hillside. That yellow patch back to the left is scotch broom, a colorful but nasty invasive.
We’ve had a lot of days like this lately. Yesterday the sun peeked out of the famous “Blue Hole” but we got rain the night before. What’s that about tomorrow being the first day of summer??
A great blue heron looks for lunch in Dungeness Bay.
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It’s a mixture of bad news, good news.
The 3 Crabs Restaurant, a Sequim institution for decades, is being sold and will likely be closing after this summer. The purchaser is the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the nearly 52 acres of land and tidelands at the property will be restored and improved for public access.
This is the marshland west of the restaurant. There is also marshland to the restaurant’s south. I’m not sure what the boundaries of the parcel are, but the location is wonderful. The parking lot fronts a beach on Dungeness Bay and has a great view of the New Dungeness Lighthouse to the north and Mount Baker and the Cascades to the east. Beach access now requires climbing over boulders and can be tricky for aging knees.
The wild nootka roses (rosa nutkana) are blooming again, despite what feels like continual rain. Hillsides at the Dungeness Recreation Area have bushes polka dotted with pink.
The blossoms only last a few days, but the bushes are profuse with them. And their perfume is wonderful. Below is the view along the trail where these flowers grew along the Dungeness Bluffs. The Olympic Mountains in the distance are cloaked in one of the day’s many rain squalls.
Here’s a view from one of the trails at the Dungeness Recreation Area. It’s a perfect spot for watching the sunset. The Olympic Mountains are partly cloaked in the background.
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This little gem shows up in shady groves in the Dungeness Recreation Area this time of year. It’s tiny – the blossom is no more than an inch high – but packs plenty of punch for its size. This is the most beautiful belly flower I’ve found. I had been calling it a ladyslipper or stream orchid, but it doesn’t match the real thing in my Encyclopedia of Northwest Native Plants.
Can anyone give this an accurate name?
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