Spring



This salmonberry plant outside our travel trailer was left after we mowed down a blackberry thicket over a year ago. This native plant is common on the property and generally welcome. You can see seedlings in the background from the first of this year's three planting weekends. We are looking east toward the Puget Sound in this photo.

Skunk cabbage aka swamp lantern is popping up lushly in all three of our wetlands this year. It has been extra wet and the wetlands are extra happy. The brown dry vines are what remain of the non-native blackberry plants and thickets most of which we removed last year. The gree foliage is more salmonberry. This view is into the little wetland on the north edge of the property at the foot of our hill.

Looking east from our western property line from the back of the property across the larger of the three wetlands you can see some open water. It will dry up in the summer, later this year probably than last given all the rain.

We are hoping for a berry bounty this year.

Dale