Friends and Flowers and Fowl

My friend, Tera is in town from Corvallis for Mother's Day weekend and as she and her family gets ready to travel for a family vacation so we squeezed in some time to go to the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden as it was peak bloom time for the flowering bushes. We were quickly greeted by this pretty duck.

 And by these buddies of his.

 Then we got into the flowers. They were so beautiful. Portland has rhodies all over the place, but it's fun to see the variety of color and the number of them all in one place.

So glad I caught the bee in this picture!

 Tera with one of her favorite colors.

 These ducks were running/waddling as fast as they could down this deck walkway. It was the cutest thing in the world.

 There were also lots of geese.

 And more flowers.

 And then we got to the baby geese. The cutest things in the world. I could have taken a million pictures as they were so adorable. I resisted and only took about 20, of which I won't post all of them...to spare you.

This picture is one of my favorites of them....

 Curious little guy...

 Momma (or Daddy) protecting the flock of goslings.

 This is another of my favorites....

 Tera and me!

 I love the twisting/turning trunks and branches of the rhododendron bushes. It's amazing how large they can get.

 We went into a building to see all the cut rhodies for the show they were having and the geese were using the roof as their landing pad. It sounded so funny to have them land and run across it and then run and take off again. It reminded me of the movie The Rescuers when Orville, the Albatross took off in flight. Below you can see geese feet...

 Some pretty unique varieties.

Now you can see the goose head...peering over the edge of the roof. Surveying his territory.

 Duck butts!

 Exploring!

Tera and me at the entry.

Following flower seeing we went to dinner at Red Robin! So yummy and a fun way to spend the day!

Thanks for the adventure added to our list of adventures, Tera!