Four weeks in a garden on the Puget Sound of Washington State . . . .
The earliest days, misty and damp. The end of a long, wet winter in the Pacific Northwest. This is the garden as it begins to awaken.
Lat years glory subdues . . . but awakening.
The misty forest that surrounds the house is beginning to stir.
The sheltered ferns made it through the cold snaps.
The mosses and lichens are adapted to thrive through the winter . . . when all the leaves have fallen from the trees.
Here and there buds are starting to appear.
The front yard Magnolia flashes it's first promise of wild flowering . . .
A week later . . . and the sun broke through for an afternoon of amazing light and color!
The bold blossoms of the Forsythia and Oriental Plum dominate the garden.
You can almost hear the trunks and branches stretch under the turgor rising from the roots.
Promises of what is to come in the garden.
A few brave blossoms gambling against a late frost.
A sunny day one week later . . . and the whit Magnolia has burst out in a constellation of white flowers.
A sunny blue garden wheelbarrow . . . 
New flowering everywhere!
The ferns seem to be exploding out of the ground!
The purple Magnolia is beginning to show color in its buds.
Leafing . . . right before your eyes.
The Japanese Pear blossoms seemed to appear overnight!
The rhododendron buds continue to swell . . .
Down under the rhododendrons, a small violet flower blooms.
Like an arrangement from a florist . . .
White Magnolia.
Delicate beauty.
Hidden in the dark shadows at the edge of the garden . . .
These gave off a wonderful aroma.
A (rare) wonderful sunny day in the great Northwest.
Weeks later . . . more wet and dark days . . . the famous Washington State rain has been relentless, but that has not stopped the powerful urge of Nature to break free.
The Rhododendron are just now beginning to emerge from the tight buds.
New buds . . . fraught with beauty.
Warped and twisted as they unfurl their beauty . . .
The magnolia in the front yard is beginning to show purple.
The purple Magnolia only budding, lagging behind their white neighbors.
A wet afternoon in the garden.
A white Magnolia in bloom deep in the dark bushes . . .
Buds and pink blooms . . . everywhere you look.
A new splash of beauty emerges.
Perfect.
Everything is showing new growth . . . Winter is at last receding.
Every day sees a new kind of flower appearing.
Tiny flowers hidden deep within the foliage.
Flowers everywhere . . . these volunteer perennial were beautiful.
Native species also appear here and there in and a round the garden.
This part of Washington State sees extreme amounts of rainfall. The trees are covered in moss.
Fresh, wet moss everywhere.
In addition to the moss, tufts of lichen adhere to almost every branch.
Bark and moss.