This is Penstemon davidsonii var. davidsonii. It’s one of the favorites that you can find in the subalpine areas of the northern Olympic peninsula. We found this sample on the Slab Camp Trail, not far from Deer Park.
Penstemon
Hollow Pilings
These pilings always intrigued me. Especially the daffodils (at least that’s what they look like here) that are growing in several of them. Did someone plant them? How did they do that? from a canoe, maybe? They are in Capitol Lake in Olympia, WA … and how are they growing? Did dirt get added to the cavities, or are they just growing in rotting wood?
Questions with no answers from your blogger.
One answer to an unasked question: the shadow is of a railroad tressle.
I have a book available on the Kindle site. It is a memoir titled 60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics. It has over 100 photographs and covers more than 100 different hikes and backpacks. I have it priced to share at $2.99 (US).
Here’s the link:
Happy St David’s Day
St. David’s Day is March 1st and St. David is the Welsh Patron Saint. It’s like St. Patrick’s Day, except the Welsh get together and sing and read poetry. It doesn’t have the same marketing appeal as drinking green beer does. But, as a person of Welsh heritage, it’s important to me. The daffodil is one of the symbols of Wales. (like the shamrock is for the Irish)
Just For Fun
I don’t usually use filters with my iPhone shots. There are so many of them and they seem gimmicky to me. But I was playing around with them, seeing how they worked and so on. I thought these were nice enough. Don’t think I’ll keep using them, but I thought I would share.
Siberian Iris
I took these this week in my garden. I have had this little bunch of Siberian Iris since we bought the house, but this was the first year that I have pruned back the old vegetation in the fall. In past years I had some blooms in January, but I’m getting lots more blooms and earlier. Not sure if it is the pruning or not, but the weather hasn’t been particularly unusual this fall. We’ll see … if I remember to prune in October next fall.
The above image was isolated using an AI mask in Adobe Lightroom Classic.
