Bold and Beautiful: Victor's Iris & Rainbows in January
The Dalles, Ore., Jan. 9, 2023 - These Iris were ready to bloom near the CCCNews building this afternoon, Jan. 9 as heavy rains and the sun lit up a rainbow over Dallesport.
Iris don’t typically bloom until April. But these, given to us by Victor Johnson, had a mind of their own this odd year as temperatures have been unusually warm.
Alas, we feel our purple is in peril as temps are expected to plunge like cryptocurrency this weekend.
Late winters are nothing unusual. Except for that, we’ve never enjoyed this one until right now. A huge storm in 2017 around Martin Luther King Jr. Day shuttered schools for a week due to heavy snow.
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