While some of these shots date back a month or so, this is representative as a Beltane [or May Day] tour...
Stephen's lawn is one of his prides, & it shows, especially when he's mown it, which he approaches as a meditation...
Here is a view from the bedroom three floors above the Star Magnolia, showing our proximity to the Puget Sound... For more than a month this tree's bouquet has been the garden Prima Donna...
The star quality only increases in a close-up...
Each spring an early yellow Keria must soon vie with a red-red rhododendron, making one of my favorite combinations. Then both are literally overshaded by an umbrella of white wild cherry blossoms... before it becomes a faux snow-storm of petals.
Another magenta magnolia down the slope vibrates with a distant lilac...
Below that is a wild-ish spot I'm just beginning to develope, right on the edge above our bulkhead, It boasts a Ceanothus, which has a color I especially love with its neighboring bronze fennel & a golden bamboo.
On the north we have beds of contrasting Ajuga & a yellow groundcover which bump the impact of these black tulips...
These tulips enjoy the long view to the East...
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