Plant places to go and plant things to see in our big beautiful world!
For those of us who live on the Eastside, it now costs to cross over Lake Washington to Seattle. Are tolls this expensive everywhere else? Thank you museums for providing a free day, I wouldn’t go without you, but why is ‘free’ so expensive? 1. $3.50 toll crossing the 520 bridge to Seattle at peak time 2. $3.00 parking fee at UW campus to visit the … Continue reading My ‘Free’ Day at the Museum
I first discovered this plant several years ago while walking through the wonderful winter garden at the Washington Park Arboretum. The winter garden is a hidden treasure to explore during this cold and bare season. Once I broke away from the witchhazel, Mahonia x media was the next plant to catch my eye. This striking hybrid between two Asian species of Oregon grape (Mahonia japonica and … Continue reading Mahonia x media
We took a field trip to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on the first free Thursday of the month. It’s in Seattle at the University of Washington campus. It’s small, but loaded with fascinating artifacts to examine, touch and discover. Don’t we all need to stare at a Mastodon skeleton every once in a while? And realize that insects have been chewing on our … Continue reading Burke Museum of Natural History
For fresh flowers, fruits and vegetables, Pike Place Market in Seattle is the best! We went there New Year’s Eve day. I gazed lovingly at all the flowers, salivated at piles of fresh vegetables and fruits, bought a warm woolen hat handmade by Tibetan refugees in Nepal, greedily gobbled miniature donuts with my kids, looked at the gum wall with a slight feeling of nausea … Continue reading Pike Place Market
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