🌿 NATIVE COLORS FOR EARTH DAY 🌿 2015

48.5923°N - 123.0320°W

Celebrated in more than 192 countries each year, Earth Day is the largest secular holiday in the world. Honoring the 45th anniversary, these wildflower photos were taken today, on one of the world's smallest inhabited islands––Yellow Island, 11 acres just north of Shaw Island, in the San Juan Archipelago, Washington State. 

There are at least 50 species growing on Yellow Island.
Today we could view Indian Paintbrush, two species of
Camas, Chocolate Lilies, Buttercup, Fawn Lily, 
while others shine off the designated foot path.

Most of these flowers are also native to Shaw Island, 
our home base. Does "Indian Paintbrush" grow on Shaw??

There are packets of wild Camas seeds for sale
at the Gatehouse on Reefnet Bay Road.
(They were not collected on Yellow Island.)

Shaw Island's Earth Day paintbox of color.
Back at home and shining out
on the bank of Blind Bay,
Native "Flowering Red Currant"
(Ribes sanguineum.)
Judge Stanley C. Soderland (1917-2001),
 former resident of the island,
 propagated cuttings and planted this species at   
 the garden of the Shaw Island
Community Building in the late 1980s.
Thanks Stan.