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.
Let’s explore around Tacoma, Mount Rainier, Sumner, Puyallup, and University Place in Washington’s Pierce County…
With a blast of autumnal colors…
A tree-lover’s heaven! Good thing I am a tree lover…
One of — if not the very —best waterfalls in Mount Rainier National Park…
A great urban park with ball fields and picnic areas, plus a gorgeous little lake to sit beside and let the pressures of the workaday world evaporate…
Even on a windy day you are guaranteed a lovely spectacle…
It’s incredible what a tree-lined path can do for the mind, to make you feel a million miles away from the city around you…
An oasis at the base of the mountain…
An easy walk past tall trees and beaver ponds in the shadow of Mount Rainier…
Few things are more exciting, and yet relaxing, than driving around Mount Rainier National Park…
Not the kind of overly manicured botanical garden that takes itself too seriously…
One of East Portland’s best spots without a doubt is Leach Botanical Garden. Full of ever-changing greenery, particularly from across the Pacific Northwest, you can find it on SE Claybourne Street, just a little off SE Foster Road and north of Mount Scott.
Smack in the middle of the delightful town of Silverton sits the Oregon Garden. It’s about 80 acres of beautiful trees and flowers of more varieties than I can count…
Not only was it pouring rain in the dead of winter, but more importantly about two thirds of the place were closed for a massive renovation project…
Relaxed splendor just west of downtown. And this trip includes the Refashioning Beauty exhibit of art by Noritaka Tatehana…
Visiting Narada Falls, Longmire, Paradise, Alder Lake, and more…
About 80 acres, separated out into different sections like “wetlands” and “conifers” and so on. A lot to take it…
Even though it was a cold, wintery day, we found many flowers in bloom already…
10 acres of lush beauty, filled with many Pacific Northwest plants, most notably of course rhododendrons…
Walking (or snowboarding or snowshoeing or skiing) on an ice field at 9,000+ feet is not something you probably do every day in summertime…
A hidden oasis of more than 15 acres in the rows of residential grid deep in east Portland…
