All major ecosystems exist within a day's traveling distance. Join Dr Stephen Link and other flower enthusiasts on a caravan trip to Twin Sisters in the Wallula Gap to see early bloomers . If you speak your phone number clearly, a volunteer will return the call. And it's a good thing, too, because quiet gray days of January help rejuvenate body and spirit after the stress of previous holidays. A sense of yearning lurks within us, obscured in the early morning fog.
Hearts fill with nostalgia of springs gone by.
Although we anticipate brighter days, we forget that many other creatures do not passively wait for magic-like changes. Constant action lurks in camouflage under leaves and on bark and branches. Roadside brush hunkers in the grayness waiting to burst into fullness of pussy willows. Buds of flowers grow plump despite freezing temperatures. Pupaes develop into butterflies and moths to delight us when those flowers bloom.