Day 172: In the Pacific Northwest, the color of early spring is yellow. It starts with Skunk Cabbage, quickly followed by daffodils, forsythia and a less welcome sight, dandelions. Scotch Broom rounds out the golden time as the first blues intrude, its masses of sneezeworthy flowers looming above the Camas prairies, but soon Mother Nature broadens her palette until summer becomes a riot of hues. Painted with splashes of orange and dots of red, dashed here and there with purples and pinks, accented with bursts of white, her canvas is one of motley in July. Perhaps she feels she must introduce us gently to her art by demonstrating a clear, pure style, and then encouraged by our acceptance, she seeks to surprise us with something boldly avant garde in her second showing. For now, though, she is in her Yellow Period. Spring has arrived.
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