Here’s more of the new growth we’re seeing all around us.
Evergreens these days look almost polka dotted with their branch tips pushing out freshly minted needles.
Category: Photos by Kay
Country roads
It’s not an exaggeration to say that all roads heading south lead to the Olympics. Keep going south and eventually you’ll get there.
Make a wish…
…and blow.
Aftermath
The fire this past Monday at Baja Cantina and Sequim Consignment Co. raged for about four hours. The cause has yet to be determined and announced. One thing is certain: it was devastating.
Enroute to a call, two passing EMTs saw smoke pouring from under the eaves. One stayed here and evacuated people from the buildings while the other responded to the call.
I worked for a nonprofit years ago that experienced a total loss fire like this at its operational headquarters. “Heartbreaking” barely begins to describe it.
Interesting specimen
Look around in forest duff and you can find all manner of mushrooms if it’s been damp. I usually see the classic sorts with the look of a miniature umbrella. This one had a very different look.
Where there’s smoke
There was a nasty fire yesterday on West Washington Street. Heavy, dark smoke billowed from the the Baja Cantina and Sequim Consignment Co. for over an hour; these firemen were completely hidden by it most of the time I watched. As I left downtown this hook and ladder was joined by a second unit from Port Angeles. I later learned that the roof collapsed on both businesses and the building is likely a total loss. The building owner is insured but as she said to a reporter,”that doesn’t replace all that heart, sweat and tears we put into it.”
Full tilt spring
Washington has much shorter growing seasons than I was accustomed to when I lived in California. Once spring gets going here it unleashes growth that at times seems riotous, wild, unstoppable. The native honeysuckle is a case in point.
It seems like plants go from tender, tentative vines to bushes filled with a fireworks of blossoms in days.
Hummingbirds love these flowers; I was buzz bombed by one a year or two ago as I moved in on a flower. The only thing they lack is that heady fragrance that cultivated blossoms have. But the wild roses that are starting to bloom now have that nicely covered.