The best skylight window & view of a giant Garry Oak tree, a critical habitat to many birds and wildlife 🌿🦋
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A cluster of dead oak leaves from last fall, wet and orange-coloured in the rain, cling to a lichen-covered Garry Oak branch.
Last Year's Leaves
#morningwalk #cedarhillpark #saanich #britishcolumbia #vancouverisland #yyj #photography #eastcoastkin #nature #lichen #leaves #garryoak
A garry oak tree, covered in golden leaves, stretches one long branch over a gravel footpath under a partly cloudy autumn sky.
More Autumn Gold
#morningwalk #gold #autumn #fall #garryoak #path #forest #cedarhillpark #saanich #britishcolumbia #vancouverisland #photography #eastcoastkin #yyj
A garry oak stands above a rocky outcrop being lit by the first rays of the rising sun, under a clear blue sky.
Autumn Morning
#morningwalk #autumn #fall #garryoak #cedarhillpark #saanich #britishcolumbia #vancouverisland #photography #eastcoastkin #goldenhour
A few fallen brown Garry Oak leaves scattered around a grey rocky outcrop, surrounded by long, dry grass. Garry Oaks form a backdrop that recedes into the foggy distance.
Autumn creeping in
The weather's still fine, but signs of fall (foggy morning, falling oak leaves, first day of school) are all around. I think this is my favourite time of year.
#morningwalk #cedarhillpark #saanich #garryoak #september #yyj #photography #autumn #fall #eastcoastkin
The waning full moon in a clear blue sky, framed by the green leafy branches of a Garry Oak tree, which roughly splits the frame diagonally from bottom left to top right.
Waning Moon in Daylight
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Clusters of bright green acorns on a Garry Oak tree branch.
Garry Oaks in waiting
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Tall golden grass stands in front of a line of green Garry Oaks under a blue sky with a few white clouds in late summer.
The long golden grass of August.
#morningwalk #yyj #victoriabc #cedarhillpark #golden #summer #garryoak #vancouverisland #photography #eastcoastkin #saanich #britishcolumbia
#StoneyHillRP #StoneyHill #SansumNarrows #NorthCowichan #CowichanValley #CoastalBluffs #DouglasFirZone #Arbutus #GarryOak #DouglasFir #CVRD #Cowichan
#HorthHill RP in #NorthSaanich is spectacular on a sunny day - always love seeing so many healthy #arbutus & #garryoak trees! #ExploreBC #DeepCove #SaanichInlet #HikeBC #CRDparks #CoastalDouglasFir #Madrona #YYJ @elizabethemay.bsky.social
A large Garry Oak tree with new spring foliage against a blue sky at the golden hour.
Garry Oak
My favourite tree again, this time with spring foliage.
#garryoak #cedarhillpark #saanich #victorianc #vancouverisland #britishcolumbia #photography #eastcoastkin #goldenhour
Tall, lush green grass with purple Camas Lilies growing among the lichen-covered rocks on a hillside, with a backdrop of Garry Oak trees covered with fresh green spring foliage.
Garry Oak Meadow
The Garry Oaks have fresh green leaves and the Camas is in bloom, making a quintessential Garry Oak meadow tableau.
#morningwalk #garryoak #cedarhillpark #saanich #victoriabc #yyj #vancouverisland #britishcolumbia #canada #photography #eastcoastkin
Tiny Garry Oak leaves, green and bronze in the late evening sunshine, unfurling from the first buds of spring.
Tiny Garry Oak leaves unfurling.
#garryoak #goldenhour #buds
#spring #playfairpark #saanich #britishcolumbia #vancouverisland #yyj #photography #eastcoastkin
Between Donating to Gaza, sharing resistance information and planning next action steps… staying grounded while listening and working with the Land and the breathtaking beauty of the thousands of white fawn lilies coming up in the #garryoak meadow. #hope #trust #freedom #resistance #Fawnlilies
Image shows a garden with a wheelbarrow and daffodils and a shovel. Below that a native ground bee sits in the soil. The text in the centre reads “FACT: 80% of native bees die from early yard clean up. Wait 6 weeks, save 1000s of pollinators”
Reminder: Leave your leaves and resist yard clean up until overnight temps are above 10 degrees Celsius. You can compost them once it warms up. Endangered native pollinators live in dead stems and ground leaves. We need them for our ecosystems to thrive. Especially the #GarryOak leaves! #VictoriaBC
#garryoak #sunset such breathtaking beauty over the Cowichan Bay estuary as the trees begin to bud…waiting with baited breath for #camas resurgence in May🥰 @canavart.bsky.social
A muddy trail leads up a hill to the right past a jumble of moss-covered rocks on the left, two small, bare Garry Oak trees on top, all under a partly cloudy blue sky.
On the Trail
Taken on our daily morning walk. This hill gets the heart pumping!
#morningwalk #cedarhillpark #yyj #victoriabc #saanich #vancouverisland #britishcolumbia #canada #garryoak #photography #moss #eastcoastkin
A bare, gnarled Garry Oak tree frames the rising full moon on a cold clear winter evening.
Rising Full Moon (and Mars)
My favourite tree at night.
#eck #fullmoon #moon #garryoak #cedarhillpark #saanich #yyj #night #photography #winter #victoriabc #vancouverisland #britishcolumbia #Canada #eastcoastkin
Good morning from the largest recorded #arbutus #madrone on settler-named #vancouverisland. She is the matriarch of thr #garryoak land. Her #hulquminum name is #qaanlhp. As a beginner #hulquminum learner, I’m using it as I can. #gratitude
#Treebeard in the #garryoak meadow I have the privilege of stewarding on unceded Quw’ut’sun land, Cowichan Bay, BC🦅
#Treebeard in another, glorious #Cowichanbay #sundown moment, #garryoak meadows enjoyed some love this weekend as I picked out hundreds of baby #japanesehedgeparsley… loving the ecological restoration of this precious unceded #Qwut’sun Land. #camas is just starting to tip through 🌊✨
Bare branches of a Garry Oak tree lit by a streetlight against a black night sky.
Night Tree
Garry Oak lit by a streetlight
#garryoak #tree #photography #night
How I love the trees I am currently privileged to steward on the Cowichan Bay shores… I have affectionately called this gentleman “Treebeard”… #lordoftherings #garryoak @canavart.bsky.social
A large, bare Garry Oak tree stands in a snowy park under a grey winter sky, with a line of bare orange-yellow willow trees as a backdrop.
Garry Oak
We are loving this extended snowy winter weather!
#garryoak #tree #photography #winter #snow #cedarhillpark #morningwalk #yyj #victoriabc #saanich #vancouverisland #britishcolumbia #canada
Venus, the 'evening star', shows as abright point of light through the dark silhouette of gnarled Garry Oak branches against a velvet purple sky at twilight.
Evening Star
Venus framed
#venus #garryoak #bluehour #twilight #photography
Bare Garry Oak branches silhouetted blackly against a darkening blue sky just after sunset.
Blue Hour
A Garry Oak tree just after sunset. Or, is it a map of rivers and their tributaries?
#bluehour #photography #garryoak #silhouette
Bright red Holly berries
Four mossy trees in a line alongside a forest park path.
A small rocky outcrop covered in moss and lichens
Close up view of a variety of different lichens growing on an old, gnarled Garry Oak branch.
Morning Walk
Some of the things that can be seen on the Cedar Hill Park trail.
#morningwalk #saanich #cedarhillpark #yyj #victoriabc #Vancouverisland #britishcolumbia #park #holly #moss #lichen #garryoak
Victoria, BC, just after sunrise on a frosty and foggy morning. City in the distance behind a row of trees on Cedar Hill Golf Course.
Brown Garry Oak leaves covered in frost lying on the grass, just touched by the first rays of the rising sun.
Dozens of bright red berries on an otherwise bare tree, lit by the sunrise.
A large moss and lichen-covered boulder lit by the just risen sun on a cold November morning.
A Frosty Morning Walk
Patches of black ice on the sidewalk - whoops, be careful!
#morningwalk #frost #autumn #cedarhillpark #yyj #victoriabc #saanich #vancouverisland #britishcolumbia #photography #park #moss #garryoak #leaves #frosty
The rising sun catches the top of an evergreen tree with a golf green behind and a backdrop of bare, golden willow trees.
A dozen or so bright golden leaves cling to low-growing branches, set against a dark tangle of underbrush.
Close-up view of bright green moss and pale green lichen growing side-by-side on an old snarled Garry Oak branch.
A scraggly Garry Oak tree on a hillside, lit by the golden morning sun. One branch reaches across the walking path to the ground as if to steady itself.
Morning Walk
Mostly clear skies with a little bit of lingering fog for our walk in Cedar Hill Park this morning not long after sunrise. Victoria, BC.
#morningwalk #cedarhillpark #park #yyj #victoriabc #vancouverisland #saanich #britishcolumbia #garryoak #moss #lichen #tree #autumn
