When I was a kid the 21st Century seemed a far-off science-fiction adventure, full of robots and laser guns and invasions from outer space, and here it is, 2005, and while we do have robots and lasers and I know a few people I would definitely be surprised to learn weren't from outer space, it's still the basic stuff that makes life the Sunday drive it can sometimes be. And the most basic stuff of all is nature; a sunrise or a sunset; a sky full of stars; songbirds singing in the garden; banana slugs slowly navigating a big red mushroom; a mountainside meadow a-bloom in glorious colors. Nature. Wildflowers.
I've been writing about wildflowers here for more than three years now, and by virtue of my gypsy innkeeper lifestyle, I've been able to share a variety of wildflowers from a variety of places. If my readers get half the joy from reading my articles as I get writing them, we're all doing okay.
So, what's planned for 2005? Besides more of the same that is, or more to the point, what places and their wildflowers will I be writing about in 2005?
Well, I can't know that entirely, since I may be a million miles away from where I am now. It is, if you're interested, early October as I write this. I am on the coast of Washington and autumn appears to be blowing in on this very day. A year ago I was in Boulder, Colorado; I had no way of knowing how boring that place would be and that my wife and I would be on the road in May, moving to the Pacific Northwest. A year from now, who knows?
I do know that in 2005 I will be writing about early spring wildflowers around Boulder; I'll be writing about some of the wildflowers we saw in Wyoming and Montana and Idaho and Washington, during our move from the Rockies to the coastal ranges. Actually, I've already written about some of that, and it's out there, floating about the cyber-nether-regions until those days I have deemed publication day.
I can tell you there will be articles about wildflowers in amazing places such as Devil' Tower and Yellowstone and Mt. Rainier and Mary's Peak. I can tell you there will be new lupines and paintbrushes and penstemons ... lord, the penstemons ... as well as many other new species.
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