Begun in September, 2018, three interpretive display panels designed by me and illustrated with my watercolors plus photography by Boni Biery, are now in place. Hillwood Park in Shoreline, Washington (my home town) is the location of an ephemeral creek running through a broad wetland meadow. In years gone by, this meadow was an orchard. The central area of this previously cultivated area is now a restored wetland meadow. Who did four years of work on restoring this meadow? Volunteers. I read many requests for assistance on this effort, but the needs of my own home property took what time and energy I had for such digging, planting, and grass removal.
But I did want to contribute something that other volunteers couldn't do, and that was to design display panels for the public to read and enjoy. It took a year for the whole effort, from my first meeting with the unstoppable volunteer coordinator Boni Biery, to the September, 2019 installation of the panels. Here are photos of the panels. Double click on the images to enlarge:
The restored wetland meadow is located in Hillwood Park in the Hillwood neighborhood of Shoreline, Washington.
The address is 3rd NW and NW 190th, Shoreline, WA, 98177.
The park is open until dusk each night. The panels are located along a wood-chipped trail at the edge of the restoration,
just north of the entrance road to the park.
