Sorry this is so late. I think the sun has addled my poor northwestern brain. This year Craig and I ventured into the Columbia Gorge with a few friends to celebrate The May. We toasted summer in with libations of wine and a lovely lunch, but we were also there to stalk the wild and wonderful Lewisia rediviva. And we did indeed find it. More abundant than we’d ever seen it before. I love this flower because it is so exquisitely beautiful and so ephemeral and so impossible. It blooms out of the basalt bones of the gorge, opens its pink petals to the sun for a few short days, and disappears. Amazing.