Being from the sunny south, I am always anxiously waiting for the warm weather and the sunshine to finally reach Portland. I know warm weather is on the way when the spring flowers that start to bloom. This past week, the clematis that covers our back deck finally burst open. Those buds had been there for ages and then pow, the deck is a blanket of flowers.
We don’t have a pink dogwood tree in our yard but they are my favorite spring flowering tree. And our neighborhood is littered with them.
This is my favorite time of year to walk the area. There are amazing plants everywhere you look.
On Saturday I went hiking with a friend in Forest Park and on some parts of the trail, the hillsides would be covered in Trilliums. They were spectacular. We kept oohing and aahing. I tried to get a shot of a whole hillside, but the photos just didn’t do it justice.
