When we hike through the hills in March, we usually spot the first wildflowers starting in the middle of the month and then we spot more at the end of the month. The first appearances are usually on south-facing open slopes above the valley floor. Slopes that are sloped at the same-opposite angle receive the most direct rays of … Continue reading →
We hiked a number of trails in the dry Central area of Washington State in April, camping at State Parks, and going out each day to hike new-to-us trails. One of the trails we enjoyed started in Swakane Canyon in the Swakane State Wildlife Area north of Wenatchee. We wound up onto open ridges above the Columbia River. We … Continue reading →
Our flower gardens continued to flower through October. In November, we started to lose the least hardy flowers (nasturtiums, gazania, zinnia, and more), some flowering plants started to go into dormancy, and a few hung on as the temperatures hovered around 0 ºC. The last flowers in bloom in exposed spots were snapdragons (Antirrhinum sp.). We had quite … Continue reading →
