As I wrote last week, "Every year I put together a calendar for friends and family, of photos I have published on this blog for the las...

Every time I reach the summit of Bear Hill I enjoy the wonderfully gnarled limbs of this large Garry Oak. It's like an enormous Bonsai. ...

As well as being a good season for mosses this time of year is great for lichens too. Some of the trees in Bear Hill Park were so festooned...

This is a different kind of moss from that posted yesterday but it is also very common though more likely to be found on fallen trees as it ...

This is a great time of the year for mushrooms but it also seems to be the best time of the year for mosses and lichens. The moss pictured ...

We went out to Saanich for a hike up Bear Hill and it was lovely, as usual. So much so that the only way to cope with the incredible exuber...

This plant is called Death Camas (Toxicoscordion venenosum) , not because it is a related to the Camas Lilies posted yesterday but because i...

I am pleased to introduce the Fairy Slipper (Calypso bulbosa ) to these pages. I have been looking for this elusive indigenous wild orchid f...

Bear Hill Park is on the Saanich Peninsula about a half hour's drive from Victoria and is covered with spring flowers right now, especia...

I went up Bear Hill a few weeks ago specifically to check out the spring flowers and photographed this lovely little flower. I saw about a h...

I went to Bear Hill Regional Park recently to check on the spring flowers (Ladyslippers especially) there. When I reached the summit of th...

I'm addicted to color. It's one of the reasons I am fond of photography but it also explains why I love spring and summer so much. T...

The Bear Hill Regional Park I visited a few weeks ago offers some lovely views of the rural countryside of the Saanich Peninsula. If you h...

Orchids, for me, are always associated with the steamy heat and humidity of the tropics. Thus I am surprised to find that we have over 40 di...