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		<title>First Camas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll get to the Camas in a bit, but that was a surprise find, not what I went looking for today.
Last weekend when I was down to the Columbia Gorge searching for Garrya I spent a few minutes at Catherine Creek to check out the earliest flowers, including Grass Widows, Olsynium douglasii. Today Natalie and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/02/28/first-camas/</link>
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		<title>Garrya fremontii</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There aren&#8217;t a lot of native shrubs that bloom in the winter. One that does is Fremont&#8217;s Silk Tassel, also known as Bearbrush, Garrya fremontii. This species has the northernmost range of any of the Garryas as far as I can determine. Even so, it doesn&#8217;t get very close to where I live in Bellingham.
So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/02/21/garrya-fremontii/</link>
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		<title>Valentine Green</title>
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Natalie announced after lunch today that she wanted to go for a hike and suggested the Stimpson Family Nature Preserve near Lake Whatcom. We hadn&#8217;t been out there for a while and the 3-mile loop trail makes a nice walk on a wet day. The rain stopped and the sun came out so we had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/02/14/valentine-green/</link>
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		<title>Precocious</title>
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Last night as I was taking the compost out in the dark a wonderful sweet odor drifted around the corner toward the back door. The Winter Daphne, Daphne odora &#8216;Aureomarginata&#8217;, had to be the source as nothing else on the back side of our house has such a fragrance, especially at this time of year.
We&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/02/10/precocious/</link>
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		<title>Garden Show</title>
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The Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle is one of the premier garden shows in the world. Every February thousands of gardeners descend on the Washington State Convention Center to find inspiration in the show gardens and purchase plants and other garden stuff from the rows of vendors.
The show is under new management this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/02/05/garden-show/</link>
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		<title>Winter Garden</title>
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The Witt Winter Garden at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle is one of my favorite places to visit in late January and February. The plant collection features early-blooming shrubs, many of which are fragrant. On a nice afternoon when the sun is low in the sky the light radiates through the massed Witchhazels and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/02/01/winter-garden/</link>
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		<title>More Buds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On our walk to Little Squalicum Beach last weekend Natalie and I looked at more than just the willow buds I included in the previous post.
This one is Black Cottonwood, Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa. The buds are quite a bit larger than the willow buds and slightly resinous. That is, when you feel them they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/01/28/more-buds/</link>
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		<title>No Wind in the Willows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pacific Northwest is home to many species of willow. Some are shrubby, some grow to be fairly substantial trees, and some can be either a shrub or a tree depending on where they&#8217;re growing.
This afternoon I photographed the winter twigs on three species. At least I think I identified three separate species. The list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/01/23/no-wind-in-the-willows/</link>
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		<title>Yellow</title>
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It&#8217;s January 19 and spring is starting to pop. We&#8217;ve had several warm days recently, with high temperatures around 50 and some mixed sun and rain. On my walk to the post office this afternoon to mail a couple of fine art prints to customers I perambulated along the Whatcom Creek trail and spied these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/01/19/yellow/</link>
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		<title>Rainy Walk</title>
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It&#8217;s that dark and rainy time of year, but that&#8217;s no reason to stay inside. My friend Jennifer Titus created a nice word picture of road turtles on her Facebook page a day or two ago, so that got me to thinking about them. This afternoon I headed up to Cornwall Park for a quick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2010/01/14/rainy-walk/</link>
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