Swan Island Dahlias, August 2018
Every summer in Oregon locals and tourists alike head to the Swan Island dahlia farm in Canby for its annual showcase of stunning dahlia blooms…
Portland International Rose Test Garden
An outstanding place, with over ten thousand rose plants making the air smell heavenly sweet…
Cape Perpetua, June 2018
The ocean here is alive, teeming with whales and starfish and anemones and so much more…
Adelman Peony Gardens, Oregon
There's something delightful in the air there; spring is springing, and peonies are everywhere!
Flowers of Lewis & Clark
I have the privilege of working every day in the lush, beautiful campus of Lewis & Clark College…
Tacoma Museum of Glass (MoG)
One of the crown jewels of Tacoma, Washington, is its Museum of Glass (MOG) downtown behind the old Union Station…
Schreiner's Iris Gardens, May 2018
May in Oregon's Willamette Valley means many wonderful flowers are blooming (and therefore tons of pollen fill the air too, gesundheit!), and one of my favorites is the iris…
Tacoma Art Museum (TAM)
In May 2018 Elaine and I visited the Tacoma Art Museum for Travel Tacoma. A great little museum, the TAM, as it's affectionately known, is about to get bigger with a new wing set to open next year…