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This photo is of the first blooms of a cross I made from pollen sent by Larry Davis that came from his Carefree Copper, which was a cross of Austrian Copper times a Buck rose. I crossed the pollen with Shock Wave, WEKgojolo, a Floribunda.
The last three days we have had unseasonably warm weather, 84 degrees, which is bringing out the blooms early in the roses and the tulips here in the Willamette Valley.
The last photo was taken at the Hot Springs fork of the Collowash River in the Willamette National Forest, 30 miles from my home. It is a tributary of the Clackamas River, which flows a mile from my house. We took a drive up there last Saturday. In the past it has been a prime Chinook salmon and Steelhead stream. There was an Indian campground a mile from our place on the Clackamas River where the Molalla Indians caught and dried salmon for the past 10,000 years. The last of the tribe died in the early 1920’s. One of our neighbors was putting in a cement foundation and dug up an Indian chief.
