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"Judy Rae Lost in Reverie"
The dining room table in the May afternoon sunlight sends Judy into Kit Kat dreamland.
May 14, 2024.
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"Member of My Crow Family"
Here is one of my crows. They come to visit me every day and ask for whole wheat bread. They have been coming since 1998. May 13, 2024.
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"True Love's Ways"
A single bloom on my "Joseph Coat of Many Colors" climbing rose. Located off the kitchen porch . May 13, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "Unknown"
This one has had years of neglect. Last year I made a concerted effort to keep it watered. I cannot remember it ever blooming. Quite pretty, really. May 13, 2024.
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#Rhododendron 'Ginny Gee'
This one grows into a horizontally spreading mound. When it blooms, it is becomes a singular mass of flowers.
🧐I need prune this one back this year.
April 18, 2024.
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#Rhododendron 'Starbright Champagne'🎌
Two more shots of this unusual six-pointed star shaped flower, with delicious raspberry jam in the center. ⛩️Hybridized by Frank Fujioka, a master rhododendron gardener on Whidbey Island.
April 18, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "Yaku Princess"🎌
This is another garden dazzler (I highly recommend this one) with Japanese species yakushimanum in its parentage. Bright Barbie pink florets, fully open to pure white! April 24, 2024
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#Rhododendron "Sassy"
Caught her during a brief late evening burst of sunlight, on an otherwise overcast day.
Photo taken in the front garden. April 23, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "Flaming Star"
This show-off is in my front garden where everyone walking or driving by can gawk. 😂
Photo taken April 25, 2024.
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"White English Bluebells"
These petite sweeties are actually albino, rendering them white. They are a protected flower in the UK. 🙄In my yard, they are invasive and spread like wildfire.
Photo taken April 21, 2024, by my mailbox.
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#Rhododendron "Kiwi Magic"
This New Zealand hybrid in gorgeous! Gobs of luscious long-lasting flowers, every spring.
Photo taken April 24, 2024, in my inner back yard garden.
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#Rhododendron "Baden Baden"
This dwarf cutie has has deep red flowers, and deep green leaves. it grows wider than taller, and is attractive in any garden setting. Photo taken April 25, 2024, in my front yard garden.
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"Hino Crimson Azalea" 🎏
This hybrid, which is covered with small crimson flowers, comes from Kurume, Japan. It is a legacy plant, likely planted by the former owner in the early 1980s.
Photo taken April 24, 2024, by my back yard driveway.
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#Rhododendron 'Cranberry Swirl'
Another unusual flower, seven petals on a rather waxy looking, flat flower, with Cranberry in the center. Hybridized in Sumner, Washington.
Photo taken in my back yard outer garden on April 25, 2024.
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#Rhododendron 'Starbright Champagne'⛩️
An unusual flower, star shaped with raspberry in the center. Hybridized by Frank Fujioka, a master rhododendron gardener on Whidbey Island. 1/x
Photo taken in my back yard outer garden on April 25, 2024.
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"Serious Maxine"
Classic Maxine Gee, staring into my camera lense. September 20, 2020.
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Summer Comes to an End"
My brother had just flown in from North Carolina, where he lives. This is looking north from Salt Water State Park, on Puget Sound, in Washington State.
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September 10, 2018
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#Rhododendron "davidsonianum 'Ruth Lyons form'
Photo taken on my way out to the mail box, off my kitchen porch. The two balls of light are garden fairies, come to visit me. April 25, 2018.
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"Boating Life"
Photo taken with my visiting brother Bobby, at Quartermaster Harbor, on Maury Island. The beautiful light is that of "beginning of autumn", with leaves beginning to show fall colors.
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September 28, 2018
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"Boating"
Photo taken with my visiting brother Bobby, at Quartermaster Harbor, on Maury Island. The beautiful light is that of "beginning of autumn", with leaves beginning to show fall colors.
Photo taken September 28, 2018 from Point Ruston.
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"My Private Volcano"
When I first moved to San Francisco in 1984, my new coworkers mistakenly believed that Mount Rainier was named after one of my ancestors (my family name is extremely similar). I let them believe.
Photo taken September 28, 2018 from Point Ruston.
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"My Private Volcano"
When I first moved to San Francisco, my new coworkers mistakenly believe that Mount Rainier was named after one of my ancestors (my family name is extremely similar).
Photo taken September 28, 2018 from Point Ruston.
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" #Bonsai Pear Tree"
Photo taken April 12, 2018, at the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington.
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"The Tulips Really Tuliped This Year"
Taken off my from in a large planter. April 25, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "Virginia Richards"
I love the delicate pink blush on cream, and the red center of these florets. Shot by my mail box, on a misty April 25, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "Yellow Petticoats"
This is a great year for this one. Located in my front garden, by the mailbox. I love the lemon yellow glowing center of the flowers. April 25, 2024.
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"The Gold Experience"
I shot this on April 21, 2024, looking west from my living room window, towards the Olympics.
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" #Bonsai Apple Tree"
Photo taken April 10, 2024, at the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington.
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#Bonsai
Photo taken April 8, 2016, at the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington.
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#Rhododendron "pseudochrysanthum"
This beauty is a low-growing, evergreen shrub native to Taiwan. I used to have this one in my garden, but killed it by my own mismanagement. Shot on April 10, 2024 in the Rhododendron Species Botanical 1/x
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"Life Unfurling (Two)"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. It reminds me of the Carboniferous Period, lasted from about 359.2 to 299 million years ago.
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"Life Unfurling"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. The air was like a misty tropical mountain highland, and smelled like heaven.😇
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"Tropical Mountain Stream"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington.
Clouds and mist are produced to simulate the tropic mountainous atmosphere. That, along with the many 1/x
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"Tropical Mountain Stream"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. I could sit in their for hours. I would likely go into a mystical trance.
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"Tropical Mountain Stream"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. Clouds are produced, and along with the sweet scent of all the tropical #Rhododendrons in 1/x
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"Tropical Mountain Stream"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. I could sit in their for hours. I would likely go into a mystical trance.
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#Rhododendron "Horizon Lakeside"
😍This one is nothing short of breathtaking. I have seen people strolling the neighborhood stop and take photos of this one. Shot in my outer backyard garden on April 24, 2024.
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"Tropical Mountain Stream"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. I could sit in their for hours. I would likely go into a mystical trance.
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"Life Unfurling"
I shot this on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington. The air was like a misty tropical mountain highland, and smelled like heaven.😇
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#Rhododendron "japonicum"
Also known as the Japanese azalea, this beauty is native to the mountain forest areas of Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Okinawa. Mine (pictured) is at least 40 years old, and 8 feet tall. April 25, 2024.
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"Bonsai Ballet"
This Japanese maple resides in the Pacific Bonsai Museum, in Federal Way, Washington. Shot on April 10, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "japonicum"
Also known as the Japanese azalea, this beauty is native to the mountain forest areas of Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Okinawa. Mine (pictured) is at least 40 years old, and 8 feet tall. April 25, 2024.
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#Rhododendron "augustinii" ONE
This beauty is native to the highlands of Hubei and Sichuan provinces in China. I have this one in my own garden. Shot on April 10, 2024 in the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington.
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#Rhododendron "augustinii" ONE
This beauty is native to the highlands of Hubei and Sichuan provinces in China. I have this one in my own garden. Shot on April 10, 2024 in the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, in Federal Way, Washington.
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#Rhododendron "konori"
Rhododendron konori is native to the highlands of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It can grow to be 10–12 ft tall and has large, strongly scented flowers.
Shot on April 10, 2024 in the greenhouse at the 1/x
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#Rhododendron "Senator Henry Jackson"
A night shot with fill flash catches this one in various stages of blooming. It is located right off my kitchen porch.
April 28, 2024.
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"Mid Century Turquoise"
In July 1959 or 1960, we were on our annual family boating adventure up north into the waters of British Columbia. I believe this is taken at Princess Louisa Inlet. My mother Maxine (r), and an woman who looks familiar stand next to 1/x
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(my sister, ten years my senior), and my brother Bobby (three years older than I.)
Judy had every reason to brood. She was my mom's daughter from a husband who died of TB, two weeks before she was born, in 1942. My mom eventually married my selfish ass of a dad in 1946, who did nothing but show 2/x
"Embrace the Ides of March"
#Rhododendron "strigillosum" kicks off spring in my garden. Rhododendron strigillosum, also known as the mang ci dujuan, is native to China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. March 15, 2024.
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"Comes The Shinigami"
This was shot on March 17, 2024, looking west thru my dining room window towards Fox Island at sunset. Yes, this was the actual sky.
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"Sunset After the Storm"
This was shot on November 29, 2020, looking into south Puget Sound after a day of wind and rain. The sun sets deep in the south this time of year.
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