Another Beautiful Day

Good morning, first full day of spring! Glad you're back! :)

Winter Palette

Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu

This quote showed up on my herbal tea tag this week and it seemed like a good reminder for me,

as I was rushing around finishing up Christmas gifts.

Today (even though I was hurrying), I finally got all the gifts in the mail!

And one frosty morning earlier this week, we almost had a beautiful sunrise.  

The sky had a little band of pink, nothing fabulous, 

but it reflected nicely in Salmon Creek.

It Was November

It was November,

the month of crimson sunsets,

parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea,

passionate wind-songs in the pines.

-Anne of Green Gables

Linking to Skywatch.

Picked Clean

One thing about heading out to the Skagit Valley tulip fields at sunrise is that I shared the fields with the agricultural workers. They weren't picking the fields clean though. They would walk down a row and carefully select flowers for bouquets. However I did see several fields picked clean like this, and wish I could relay the reason for it. I do know that these farms dig up and replant these bulbs each year. Maybe clearing the flowers at once helps speed the bulbs to their resting phase?