Whatcom Artist Studio Tour

Have you checked out any artist studios? If you haven't yet, check out a few of your favorites. It runs one more weekend. If you don't have time to go around, you can have a taste of each artist's art at Blue Horse Gallery downtown.

We went to David Ridgway's on Saturday. How I loved his paintings. The vibrant color of local scenary and architenture. I really had hard time leaving his studio. Some day...

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Whatcom Nature Calendar

I found an awesome Whatcome Nature Calendar from Bellingham Herald. Here is for March.
I can't wait to see ladybugs again.

MARCH
✦ Ladybugs come out of hibernation.
✦ The fragrance of budding black cottonwood fills the air with a sweet balsam scent.
✦ If you walk close to a pond early in the month, you might hear a low murmuring sound. It’s male red-egged frogs calling beneath the water for mates.
✦ Red-flowering currant blooms.
✦ Silver-spotted tiger moth caterpillars, which hatch in the fall and spend the winter huddled together in douglas fir trees, begin to spread out.
✦ Crustaceans, fish, mollusks and other sea creatures release thousands of tiny larvae into the plankton through March and April.
✦ Brant geese that winter in Mexico stop at Padilla Bay in Skagit County.
✦ Great blue herons move to colonies.
✦ Mid-month, violetgreen swallows and rufous hummingbirds arrive.
✦ Amphibian egg masses appear in ponds.
✦ Trillium blooms.

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