Marilyn's Photos - Feb 22 2026 - Snowdrop Sighting

 

Enough snow was gone yesterday to reveal the leaves and grass, and that means the garden.  I looked and looked and finally found some tiny leaves coming up - Snowdrops. This is late for them.  I guess being buried under snow gives them the sense that they can have a long winter nap.  Snowdrops are considered our earliest spring bloomer. I went looking for blooming cherry trees in Victoria but alas, the internet has lost its retrieval tools.  It wants to show me things from whenever and wherever.  I got to thinking that we went to Vancouver in February many years ago, and then went to Victoria. We visited Sooke Harbour House. Early spring was everywhere.  Sooke got my attention because it was a boutique hotel with a pioneering culinary approach of the 100 mile diet, a garden-to-table approach which included edible flowers. Since then, we have visited every so often whenever we were on the West Coast.  Sooke Harbour House went through a few years of financial and legal controversies - all with much news coverage. In July 2025, restauranteur Luke Evanow purchased it after a $14 million dollar renovation. Here’s what it loos like from the air - far larger than the last time we were there.   Here are some of my pictures from February 2006.  I remember the Erica (Heather) everywhere, and Rosemary was a perennial in the gardens. This is likely an ornamental plum tree blooming beside the wood storage.  And of course, the beautiful view of the mountains and ocean.

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