illustration of kitchen table with mom's dish towel and rosette fritters, freshly made -- two missing she gave to me
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Favorite Meal Memory

making rosette cookies & a humorous incident involving a sneeze

Pink dahlia
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Dahlia Two Roads

A Little Note The Photo: One of 49 species of Dahlia The Thought: Fibonacci Sequence: each number is the sum of the two preceding ones0,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55… In nature, find it in the arrangement of pine cones or the spirals of petals of dahlias. https://youtu.be/ahXIMUkSXX0 Perhaps there’s math in the paths we chose in life. [The Road… Continue reading Dahlia Two Roads

Woods Rose —Rosa woodsii; east of the Cascades
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Rose Woodsii

The Woods Rose, also known as Rosa woodsii — the fragrance is in the air

rainbow over Waterville Plateau, coming into Coulee City on US Highway 2
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Be Thankful Rainbow

A Little Note The Photo: rainbow over Waterville Plateau, coming into Coulee City on US Highway 2 The Thought: We live in such a diverse and beautiful area, bounded by amazing skies that stretch from mountains east and west of us. We are grateful every day that we get to live here, away from the… Continue reading Be Thankful Rainbow

I think it is crested wheatgrass, Agropyron cristatum, but I could be wrong.
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Dancing with the Wind

I think it is crested wheatgrass, Agropyron cristatum, but I could be wrong. A Little Note The Photo: I think it is crested wheatgrass, Agropyron cristatum, but I could be wrong. The Thought: Crested wheatgrass can be found east of the Cascade Mountains across the United States. Eurasia is its origin, and it was introduced here for… Continue reading Dancing with the Wind

Amsinckia menziesii, in the borage family, at Banks Lake, WA
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Amsinckia menziesii

Amsinckia menziesii, in the borage family: loved by bees, bumblebees, butterflies, and goldfinches

common mullein in it’s second year; the the seeds have fallen, the blooms have died and so will the plant.
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Strange Stalk

common mullein, a biennial plant / weed

Across the street, the neighbor’s house now has a Bigfoot sculpture, and every time I glance out the window, I stop, thinking it’s someone or something!
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Morning Surprise Sasquatch

The neighborhood now has a resident Bigfoot / Sasquatch