Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Some of the partiers
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Happy Birthday, Thelma. Wish you were still with us!
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Ione, Roxie, Sally, & Connie
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - More Thelma stories passed around
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Early signs of Spring - Indian Plum in bloom!
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Sally's crew planted these natives and many more
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Some interesting holdovers from times past
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Water!
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - One of the original descriptive signs
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Reclaimed peat bog. Maybe some ancient beaver work.
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Little mushrooms popping up!
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Mallards! Ione also spotted a Hooded Merganser!
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Imagine the beautiful Bleeding Hearts to come!
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - One of the few birds to actually show himself - American Robin!
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - One of the handy lookouts, this one high off the main trail
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Evergreen hucklesberry setting buds already!
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Wild Violets along the trail!
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - A tree downed long ago adds to the diversity
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Lichens, moss, and old leaves draw the eye
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Sally wants to see a Mountain Beaver in person someday (Aplondontia rufa), and this park looks like one of their hideouts
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Trail goes beneath a natural archway.
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Several different ferns and low-growing jewels beneath our feet
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - We were totally alone in the park most of the time.
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Roxie shows the very tiny flowers of the hazelnut (filbert) tree
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Roxie shows the catkins of filbert tree
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - A tablecloth lends an air of formality to the festivities
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - A crow looks down on the party
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Crow gives up
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Sally made two cakes!! Also with ice cream and coffee and lots of everything! What a party!
Tahoma Audubon: 2-29-20 - Diane and Faye wearing Tahoma Audubon official shirts