Spring at last

A beautiful wreath of iridescent red seaweed

Every one of these tubes houses a feather-duster worm. When the water comes in,

they do look like colorful red and purple feather dusters

A shaggy-mouse nudibranch.

A very colorful purple seastar

Moonglow anemone

Geoducks, cleaned

A bouquet of geoducks, still in the shell

Spring on Ebey's Prairie

Cormorants on the Snohomish river

I am cautiously, very cautiously optimistic that perhaps the weather has turned the corner to actual springtime now. After the coldest March and April on record, we are completing our 2nd day in a row of sunshine with two more in the forecast. "Temperatures May Hit 70" made the front page of the paper today. If this holds, my lawn may actually dry out enough that I will no longer have an excuse not to mow....

The Swainson's Thrushes are here, but not singing yet. My usual due date for Swainson's song is May 20th, so they'd better get with the program.

Meanwhile, here are a bunch of pictures I've taken this spring on the few non-rainy days we've had.