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"There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart."
Celia Thaxter

Saturday, May 20, 2006


Some of the interesting rock formations along the Oregon coast.
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The Heceta Head Lighthouse. Oregon coast.
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Depoe Bay, Oregon.
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A view of the Oregon coast.
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Some lovely white tulips underplanted with purple violas. Pretty! Butchart Gardens, April 2006.
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A view of the sunken garden. I liked this shot. Butchart Gardens.
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A lavendar rhodie up close. Butchart Gardens.
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Some pretty rhodies seen through a tree.
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The fountain at the Butchart Gardens.
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Butchart Gardens.
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Another view of the pond at the Butchart gardens.
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This is a lovely Monet bridge that my friend's husband built for her on their property. Wouldn't you love to sit here and paint??
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This is a duck photo taken for my daughter Ami who loves ducks. This was taken at the Royal Museum in Victoria, BC Canada.
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The sunken garden with some reflection from a pond.
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More of the sunken garden at the Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, BC Canada.
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Part of the sunken garden.
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A small waterfall in the Japanese Garden at Butchart.
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This was a pretty fountain at the Butchart Gardens.
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This was in an indoor garden. They had a window without glass so you could take pictures of the flowers. This was at the Butchart Gardens.
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Friday, May 19, 2006

I will add shots from the Butchart Gardens and the Oregon coast another day.
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Another shot of the part of the hotel where our room was. The opened curtains under the 5 circles were our windows, along with the windows on either side. So cool!
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A beautifully bloooming tree. Victoria, BC.
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The Parliament Building at night. The lights came on each night.
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The Parliament building. We got a partial private tour from one of the employees who saw me taking pictures and offered to show us some other rooms.
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Another view of the Empress Hotel.
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A large ferry entering the inner harbor. View from our room's windows.
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Looking back towards the hotel from a walkway that went along the inner harbor.
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Our view, another angle.
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One direction of the amazing view from our hotel room. It was really incredible!
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Here is where we stayed. Our room was in the right section; the large row of windows 5 floors up. We had been upgraded to a suite. Fun!
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Victoria, BC!
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A field of tulips (and people) at Tulip Town.
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Inside Tulip Town.
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A cute wagon of bulbs outside the shop at Roozengarde.
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Tulips in the show garden at Roozengarde.
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A tulip reflection. Skagit Valley, WA.
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Another scene from the ferry as we cruised the San Juan Islands.
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Friday Harbor, WA. Part of the San Juan Islands.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006


Here is a little Rose fairy for a Spring Chunky Book.
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A Rose Fairy. The Jackson and Perkins catalogues come in handy for floral backgrounds.
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Flower Fairy page. Part of the same Chunky Book.
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Another page for the Spring Chunky book for Outside the Margins yahoo group.
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A page for a Spring Chunky book. The background is a crayon batik technique.
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Monday, May 01, 2006

Here are a few of the pictures of the tulip fields and show gardens from my trip to Washington and Victoria. More to come later!
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My favorite variety of the tulips was the Salmon Parrot Tulip. Each one is unique.
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A Salmon Parrot Tulip close-up.
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This looks to ba a path of tulips, or a river of tulips. Part of the Roozengarde Show Garden.
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This variety is called "Aladdin." Fun tulip!
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Tulips, tulips, tulips!
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This was a lovely combination.
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More of the Salmon Parrot tulips.
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Varieties of tulips at the Show Garden for Roozengarde.
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