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”

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”