My favorite evening ritual is to check the porch area on my way to bed for moths and bugs that help confirm that natural food webs are still occurring outside our house. Last week, I saw the first moths of 2022.
There are a few native flowers in the native plant garden this month, too, including Oregon grape, osoberry, and native ginger.
While looking for videos on locally native plants, I stumbled on the course videos for a Western Washington University professor, T. Abe Lloyd. His videos are very informative and charming. Find some HERE.
We spent a long weekend up at the cabin in Tonasket. There weren’t many flowers in bloom, but the scenery was beautiful. Winter was hanging on tenaciously there and it snowed one day for a couple of hours. The sage buttercups were bravely blooming. I photographed some ponderosa pine trunks just to show the beauty/brightness of their trunks. And one dead tree that was obviously a woodpecker favorite with remarkable neon lichen (wolf lichen) on its decaying branches. Lots of sky photos and meadow views with the aspen grove.
