An Uphill Battle

A question before I begin: what color will this flower be when it opens?

When D comes home and says "You should take a walk; it's beautiful out tonight." I first think "Yippeee... freedom!!!" and then I think about where I should walk. The walk to the water is so tempting, but the walk back is no picnic. From the water looking up it looks like this:
From that little turn in the road you look up to this:

Where that portion disappears in the trees you look up to see this part:

The final piece of the climb is this:

So when I have the chance to walk I love to do it, but when I walk down to the water I have to remember to save some energy for the climb back up. Why walk this do you ask? Well, Old Man Rainier of course. He was wearing a pinkish snow sweater last night when we met at the water.

I am proud to say I have not yet (not ruling it out either) stopped at someone's house and called D to come and pick me up. ;)

By the way the answer to the question about the rhododendron is this: White with pink edges and the longer it is open the more white it gets.

love and hugs and have a great weekend,B

PS--one final question: why won't my tulips open? They have been like this for 2 weeks.