Colorful Homer

We spent another day in Homer.  Went on a birding excursion this morning with Karl Stoltzfus, fabulous, but that will be a post by Bruce. 

I've tried to grow blue poppies, guess I'll have to move to Alaska.  These were in a perennial garden.  They, along with armeria, delphiniums, saxifrage, ranunculus are just a few that thrive here as they don't at The Woods. 

We visited the Pratt Museum which was a great mix of art collection, culture and history displays, biology displays-both live and specimens, art exhibit, nature trail and small botanical garden of native plants plus a homestead with vegetable garden. This lady slipper was blooming in the garden.  It is surprising how flowers that would bloom in succession at home bloom at the same time here.  Must be due to the shortened growing season.  It does make for more color at once!

Helen