tulip season

This past week has been the height of the tulip bloom here in Skagit. I’d been driving back and forth to the art show at Rexville, keeping an eye on the blooms, and finally one morning I took myself out to the fields at sunrise and watched the morning fog roll over the tulips andContinue reading “tulip season”

happy spring!

Happy first day of spring! Admittedly, it’s not looking like spring yet up in the mountains – we just crossed the pass this weekend and it was still very wintry. But at home in my garden, things are beginning to happen. Hellebores, chionodoxa, hyacinth, early daffodils and muscari are all in bloom, the pussywillow catkinsContinue reading “happy spring!”

currently showing

Last week I hung a show at Brandywine Kitchen in downtown Bellingham. They have a gorgeous old brick wall, and I brought out an assortment of colorful organic macros and abstracts in big frames. I think it looks great – check it out if you’re in the neighborhood and tell me what you think! AllContinue reading “currently showing”

low tide

As often happens in February in Skagit, the sun has been making brief appearances, only to vanish again behind gray wet clouds. We took advantage of a sunbreak to walk out at Padilla Bay again. The tide was going out, and No Name Slough wound gleaming through the tideflats while mist rolled in from theContinue reading “low tide”

just messing around

For the last class I took at Photo Center NW, we took a little field trip to Counterbalance Park on lower Queen Anne, where I discovered some of the fun things that could be done with multiple exposures in the camera. I just got around to finding the settings for layered exposures in my newContinue reading “just messing around”