Lomatium

Simple design in blue and green with native wildflowers.

Purple and flowers for your browser. Phlox longifolia a plant native to western North America and just as pretty as any found in the garden. For more info on native plants see www.cwnp.org

Old fashioned rose.

Sphaeroalcea grossulariifolia is a native mallow- related to hollyhocks that grows in deserts in the western US. www.cwnp.org

Hooker's balsamroot- Balsamorhiza hookeri in rainbow vision. A western US wildflower which looks very much like a plant is closely related to- the sunflower. Visit www.cwnp.org for more information on native plants.

Waters of the Columbia River in Washington State.

Carex geyeri- elk sedge, an ecologically important ground cover in Pacific Northwest forests. Go to www.cwnp.org for more information on native plants.

Petroglyphs from Idaho along the Snake River, made by Native Americans. Some of the rock art in the area is historic, while some is up to 7,000 years old. Some are easier to decipher than others. While the man is fairly obvious, the other could be eyes or???

Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus) along the Columbia River in winter. These reeds were used extensively by Indians for mats and the outside covering of houses. Since the building of dams there are very few places along the river with these reeds, as the old riparian areas that they grew so well in were flooded.

Barestem biscuitroot or Indian parsley seedlings in early spring- east Cascades, Washington State. Plants in this family and genera when blooming looks like carrots, except this one has yellow flowers instead of white. The leaves are high in vitamin C and were used by Native Americans for fresh greens and seasoning. It tastes like very strong parsley.

Inverted strawberries. Bottoms up!

My dog, a border collie named Sonny, sniffing the camera while out for a hike in the Cascades.

1927-1928 Dobro (a bluegrass instrument much like a guitar), and monkey flowers (a wildflower native to the western US). Bluegrass and wildflowers...does it get any better?

Red and blue Iris - photo of native wildflower and the hue and saturation levels adjusted.

Green is a color you just never see in roses, perfect for St. Patrick's Day. Let the luck of the Irish be with you.

Roses for your browser.

A petroglyph from Idaho- carved out of basalt using another rock by prehistoric Indians. Two lizards.

The elusive mountain lady slipper, an orchid native to North America. Found in shaded moist forests.

Mariposa lily- Calochortus macrocarpus- inverted colors. Found blooming in late spring throughout the western US. www.cwnp.org for more info on the plant.

One of the few native orange flowered plants, it also does well in gardens. Its scientific name is Sphaeralcea grossularifolia. To find out more about native plants visit cwnp.org

Quaking aspen- Populus tremuloides- grove in the Cascades. Growing where there is water- often springs- aspens can form colonies of hundreds of "trees" from one single tree because of the extensive root system that grows new woody stems out of the roots of just one.

Leucocrinum montanum also called sand lily or star-of-Bethlehem. A member of the lily family and native to the western US, habitat is dry sandy or rocky areas. www.cwnp.org

Old fashioned rose from my garden.

This iris is native to the western US and Canada, growing in wetlands and often in wetter swales in the forest.