Leach Botanical Garden, Aug 2025
If you are ever out and about in east Portland, one stop you must make is Leach Botanical Garden. Its 17 acres are packed full of natural beauty all year round.
Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, May 2025
It’s always worth a visit to SE Portland’s Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden; this is especially true if you like rhododendrons, as they are omnipresent there.
Leach Botanical Garden, May 2025
16+ acres of lush forest and flowering plants from around the Northwest, and you will get a very different experience depending on what time of year you visit.
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge
This refuge, located just west of Ridgefield, Washington, is home to a wide variety of plants and animals.
The Oregon Garden, July 2024
Even though it was in the heat of summertime, we still saw many animals in this botanical garden, including a few very happy and loud frogs.
Westmoreland Park, Portland
A quick visit to Westmoreland Park, a lovely community park in SE Portland, Oregon…
Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm (Set 2 of 2), April 2024
Frolicking with tulips on a perfect spring morning. This is post two of two, and it features the 85mm photographs.
Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm (Set 1 of 2), April 2024
Frolicking with tulips on a perfect spring morning. This is post one of two, and it features the 50mm photographs.
Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, March '24
On a cool drizzly early spring morning, there were plenty of beautiful sights in the garden, from honking geese to blooming flowers of various varieties (including, yes, rhododendrons). Oh, and one huge nutria.
Schreiner's Iris Gardens, May 2023
An award-winning farm that ships irises all over world, with custom hybrid varieties that you cannot find anywhere else. If you are like me and love the smell of irises, this farm is a heavenly place to visit. Bring your nose!