poppies

I've got so much to write about, and many photos to share (from recent travels and otherwise) but right now I am just utterly swamped with all the freelance editing work I've taken on, which is going to amount to the equivalent of an intermittent second job this summer. I owe my poor, patient clients their drafts back, and have no time to write, at least not until the three-day weekend arrives. In the meantime, here are some California poppies for you--like other migrants from that state, they're enthusiastically colonizing the Northwest. You'd think some florally-inclined Johnny Appleseed had flung fistfuls of poppyseeds all up and down Puget Sound.