As a young boy I watched my Mother and learned from her as she tended her garden. My Father was an Army Aircorp Photographer and I watched and learned from him, and made prints in our darkroom.

I was trained as a newspaper photographer and worked for papers to record important events.

My Wife and I filled our yard up with beautiful flowers just like my Mom did. I taught elementary special education in the public schools for 30+ years. However, photography was my first love, and it has grown over the years.

It was only natural for me to begin taking photos of flowers in our yard. This lead to finding beautiful flowers in nurseries, dahlia and tulip fields, and wherever I could find them in our beautiful Western Washington.

Thank you Mom for the love of flowers, and thank you Dad for the love of photography. Without you, these beautiful photographs would not have been made.