Wanderings

Two weeks ago, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, thereby signaling the onset of six more weeks of winter. Phil may have it down for the east coast, but his aim seems to be a little off when it comes to us here in the pacific northwest. We have had a marvelously beautiful week here in Seattle. It’s been sunny and, for lack of a better word, awesome. I even broke out my sandals today.

It’s hard to look around and not see spring coming and of course, Spring brings flowers. I normally don’t go in for flower pictures, but it was just too exciting to see color on the trees again.

It was really cool to see people out enjoying the parks again. Cal Anderson park was packed, as was Green Lake this morning. It’s hard, in my mind, to find a prettier city than Seattle while the weather is good.

I loved that someone pinned these paper flowers to the trunk of this tree. Seattle’s creative spirit is just awesome. There’s a couple of roundabouts near my place where someone’s planted vegetables in place of the usual low grasses and such.