I've been combing my photos for things that I've never posted, for one reason or another. Some of these are really old -- pre-blog, in fact pre-Washington.
It may come as a surprise to some of you that I love snakes. Fortunately, I've never lived where I had to worry about finding a poisonous one while out in the garden weeding. I might feel differently if I lived in Texas.
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| This beautiful black rat snake appeared in my garden in Massachusetts one day. |
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| My garden back then was not fenced, and bordered on protected wetlands. |
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| What a beauty! |
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| I used to see harmless garter snakes all the time in my garden in Massachusetts. |
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| It didn't take the snakes long to find the goldfish in my little pond. I once ran out there in a flimsy nightgown one early morning to grab a fish out of the jaws of a garter snake. Fortunately, both the snake and the goldfish lived. |
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| My little pond |
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| Two water lilies in the pond |
My current garden is fenced, and I'm sure that's one reason why I never see snakes here.
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| Sarah Bernhardt peony from my Massachusetts garden |
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| New Dawn rose |
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| Foxglove |
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| Dicentra spectabilis |
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| A flock of wild turkeys on my front lawn in Massachusetts |
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| The wetlands, or in this case, the snowlands |
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| Magnolia flower in the Washington Arboretum's Japanese Garden |
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| Duck butt in the Japanese Garden |
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| The first bed I put together at the house we rented our first year here, in North Seattle |
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| The enormous pomegranate at Little and Lewis on Bainbridge |
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| Annual poppy |
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| Astrantia |
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| Primula viallii |
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| Cascade foothills |
I hope you enjoyed this random look back at the past. I'd show more photos of my Massachusetts garden, but back then my camera was pretty basic, and I barely knew which buttons to press or where to point it.
