Will This Ark Get Built Before The Flood?

Boy-howdy have I been busy the past four days!

What with Spring Cleaning and Seasonal Gardening Frenzy, there has been little time to stitch.  As the weather is to change today to rain, and rain for the next several days, there is an imperative to continue work on the Ark!  Here's an update on "Noah's Sampler".  

Sunday morning my sister and I drove out Seavey Loop way to attend the Mount Pisgah Arboretum Wildflower and Music Festival.

The festival is the main fundraiser for the arboretum.

This vendor sold hand-dyed silk scarves.  All the many colors above were made using mushrooms!  How cool is that?

This Douglas Fir Tree Round charts the growth of a tree through its rings.  The tree began life in 1534, and sadly, was cut down by a vandal in 1985 - over 450 years later. 

The festival had music and food and vendors...

...but most interesting to me was the large display of over 300 botanical specimens. 

Lane Community College botany students and the Native Plant Society put together a wonderful display of wildflowers, trees, shrubs, and grasses.  I took lots of photos: first of a plant, then the identification card.  I was able to find names for a couple of my mystery wildflowers. 

This is a bouquet of Oregon's wild azalea.

Mount Pisgah is so pretty this time of year.

Green, green, green. 

The many White Oaks were bright green with new leaves.

Flush with wildflower information, I was pleased to find this white sport of our Blue Oregon Iris (Iris tenax) when we returned home.

I spent the afternoon and evening working outside.  I got the Front Porch plants ready to stage.  Rain is due to arrive this afternoon, but I can work comfortably on the Front Porch even if it is raining.