Roadside "weed". Small, 5-petalled flowers, white with lilac stripes, each flower on its own stem. 8 flowers here, and several buds. Stem leaves are small; many round basal leaves form the background.
Miner's lettuce. Claytonia sibirica. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/road... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography
Almost identical. Same habitat, too.
It's Spiraea douglasii.
Terminal clusters (2) of flowers. Spiraea douglasii. They're left on the shrub over winter, and are now deep brown. (They start out deep pink.) Long, narrow, compact clusters on bare stems. This year's leaves haven't appeared yet. Background; greens and browns and light areas (dead tree trunks, barkless) of a wetland and beaver pond.
Last year's hardhack flowers. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/beav... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography
Two life-sized figures created out of driftwood. On the right, a large "man" over 2 metres tall, all brown wood. His knees are slightly bent, arms hanging down, one hand a bit forward, as if holding something to offer to the bear. The bear, with his back to us, sits on a cut-off stump. He's small, barely a cub, even on the stump he's only half-thigh height to the Forest Guardian. (He looks like a Sasquatch, but friendlier. And the maker says he's a Forest Guardian.) He stands on a cement slab. Behind him, there's a gravel area, then trees. On the left, behind some trees, there are cars on a bridge.
Forest Guardian and Quinny the Bear Cub. Another driftwood creation. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/litt... #VancouverIsland #Art #Sculpture #Driftwood #Sasquatch #NaturePhotography
Stones on a beach. The one in the centre is mottled grey and whitish, with a smear of red algae on the end. On top of the stone there are three large limpets, all with blue tips. One wears a brown and white checkerboard pattern, another has stripes going around it, black, brown, white. The third, on the left, has a black rim; the middle section is brown. Beside this one, there's a tiny, blackish (in the light, purple) snail with a cream spiral line.
Three limpets and a snail on Little Bear Bay beach. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/amon... #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #IntertidalInvertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
Land/seascape: rocky beach, blue water, green hills beyond (with evergreens) and then blue hills in the distance. Under a blue sky with soft, white and grey clouds. On the right, under another evergreen-clad hill, a rounded brown and grey rock juts out into the water. (Brown up to the highest high-tide line, grey above.) The rock seems to have an unhappy face; long mouth turned down, squinty eye.
Little Bear Bay, 3/4 tide, and an unhappy rock. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/old-... #VancouverIsland #Landscapes, #Paredolia #Faces #NaturePhotography
jumping spider, Habronattus amicus, on a central CA beach, doing a very nice job of blending in ...
Brown and green water, with many specks of dust, bits of floating twigs, highlighted by the sunshine. In the centre, there's a swimming bug. On its back, with two jointed legs out to each side, like oars. The bug is black; the "paddles" are brown.
Very bad photo, but it made my day. A speeding critter swimming in a pond in the bush. Common backswimmer? New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/turk... #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #AquaticInsects #Insects #NaturePhotography
A steep hillside; tumbled rocks encased in moss. Sunlight highlights the shapes of the rocks, shines through fronds of sword ferns growing in the crevasses. Bright greens and yellow-greens.
Sunlight on moss and ferns at the riverside. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/gree... #VancouverIsland #Moss #Light #NaturePhotography
A largish brown spider with darker brown markings and long, thin legs; the hind legs have long, almost perpendicular spines. She's momentarily paused on a sun-bleached piece of driftwood.
Wolf spider, Pardosa sp., on beach driftwood. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/yay-... #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
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The tip of a thin reddish branch with pink leaves starting to unfurl delicately.
More from PINK TREE SEAON!! New leaves can be pink too apparently
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An old, rotting log with polypore (bracket) fungi growing in the crumbly interior. Because the tree fell after the first fungi grew, they are now standing on end, with the pores facing to the left. New fruiting bodies grow in the "proper" position, with the pores facing downwards. Three stacks of these fungi; in the one on the left, the original is clearly exposed; lumpy and cracked. The new ones are smooth and clean. Moss grows on top of the log; beneath, there's grass, dead maple leaves, new leaves.
When the tree falls ... Polypore fungi build to suit. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/adap... #VancouverIsland #Fungi #ArtistsConks #Mushrooms #NaturePhotography
A sparrow; mostly brown, with a wide grey stripe over the eye. It has its back to me, but looks at me over its shoulder. Not worried, just keeping an eye on me. Fanning out the tail feathers: showing off? It's perched among bare rose branches and twigs; there are a few old rose hips still hanging on, some red, some black. But there are also new spring buds, pink and green. Background, blue water.
Song sparrow among last winter's rose hips. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/slee... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography
A group of pink fawn lilies surrounded by last year's dead maple leaves. The flowers are bright pink, borne on single stems, and hanging downward. 6 sharp tepals, spread wide and curved upwards at the tip. Yellow stamens hang beneath. The leaves beneath are mottled, green with white curvy lines. One frond of an evergreen fern hangs over the flowers at upper right.
Pink fawn lilies. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/ever... #VancouverIsland #Flowers #BloomScrolling #SpringFlowers #Spring #NaturePhotography
Noisy river. Campbell River, low water, in April.
I think it's the sky. Can't be sure; maybe it's an optical illusion.
Against a clear, blue sky, a branch of the Big-leaf maple tree lifts its large flower buds. 6 almost open buds: each one holds a cluster of greenish-yellow flower buds, the whole cluster wrapped in reddish bracts. Two smaller buds are still completely closed. Smooth grey bark on the branch. The leaves will appear once the flowers are completely open.
Big-leaf maple flower buds. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/flow... #VancouverIsland #Flowers #BloomScrolling #SpringFlowers #Spring #NaturePhotography
A grey and white pigeon on stones of a parking lot, wearing a flash of neon-green, mallard-green, on the back of the neck. The head is patchy, grey and white, the eye bright red. There are a few brown feathers in the wings, and the feet are pink with red splotches.
Pigeon with mallard-green neck. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/what... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography
Calm water, a bit stripy. Three buffleheads are dawdling in the sunshine. One, centre rear, is a male, with a big, white crown, white body, and black neck, bill, and wing tops. On either side are females; one looks off to the left, showing the white cheek patch on her black head. Her breast is white, her back, black. The water reflects the three birds. Behind them, it reflects dark woods and buildings on the far shore.
Three buffleheads in the estuary. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-la... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography
A tiny bird, always in motion. A black head and throat, tiny (tiny!) bill. A white, triangular streak goes from the bill down to the neck. The back is a rich, red-brown, chestnut colour, which gives the species its name, Poecile rufescens. The bird is clinging to the bark of a young red alder tree; almost-bare branches surround it, with a few new leaf buds showing; it's early spring. Grey sky.
Chestnut-backed chickadee. The only chickadee species resident on Vancouver Island. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/in-w... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography
A hanging cluster of 5-petalled, red flowers with pink centres. The flowers at the bottom are still closed buds. Above the cluster are several round, 5-lobed leaves. In the background, against the pale brown of the winter woods, a few more blurred flower clusters, still unopened, are seen. Ribes sanguineum.
Red-flowering currant. New spring colour in the bush. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/yep-... #VancouverIsland #Flowers #SpringFlowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography
Two stems of a Bleeding Heart. The flower heads droop; the leaves stand erect. None are open yet. The flower buds are red, green, white; the top red, and the petals, where they begin to push through, are white. The leaves, still folded, are pale green, with pink tips. The stems are green at the bottom, turning to orange near the top. Background; a grey wall.
There will be big bleeding-hearts. For now, there are buds. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/samp... #VancouverIsland #Flowers #BloomScrolling #springFlowers #NaturePhotography
Exulansis inevitably leads to jouska.
A grey rock face with two mosses; one with many separated, spiky tops, the second, bright yellow-green, very densely packed, mounded. There are three of these little mounds. At the upper right, there's a bit of greenish white Cladonia lichen.
"Pincushion" moss on a wet rock face. wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/gree... #VancouverIsland #Moss #Mosstodon #NaturePhotography
Gorse, Ulex europaeus. An invasive species here in BC, with bright yellow flowers, sharp, strong spines. The photo shows one branch with many flowers; the plant is in the pea family, and the flowers are shaped like those of a pea. Background; dark greens of the coniferous forest.
Gorse, Echo Lake. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/spin... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Spring #InvasiveSpecies #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography
I uploaded this to my youtube channel for easier sharing/putting on tvs/ai slop theft: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvf...
Forgot to mention, "O Bid Me Leap"; Juliet's defiance, Shakespeare.
