I took a spin up to Walbran Park this afternoon for the view and was rewarded by being able to spend a pleasant half-hour with this young B...

The entrance to Victoria Harbour lies between two points, Ogden Point (where the cruise ships dock) marks the eastern side of the harbour en...

Despite the subnormal temperatures this year and the cloudy skies, the Camas Lilies have once again spread their carpet of blue over the slo...

Here's another wildflower that is blooming up in Highrock Park now. They look like what are commonly called Buttercups except they are o...

At this time of year when the Camas are blooming I can't get enough of Highrock Park so here are a few more. Below is the path I usually...

In the spring the grass is left to grow on the bluffs overlooking the beach along Dallas Road and is a riot of green, purple and yellow than...

At this time of year when the Camas Lilies are blooming Highrock park really seems like a little bit of Eden or some other earthly paradise....

Benjamin and I spent a lovely afternoon on Friday up in this truly magical park. It is a great look out spot, affording views in all direct...

Just above the tenting facility pictured yesterday is another relatively new project at Fort Rodd Hill, the Garry Oak Learning Meadow. As w...

This is the view from Gonzales Hill looking the same direction as Saturday's photo. In the foreground is Gonzales Bay and beyond that is...

Highrock Park, like many of Victoria's little parks, is not an area of carefully cultivated flower beds, lawns and hedges but is rather ...

Many wildflowers grow in great numbers here during the spring but none of them in such profusion as these splendid Camas Lilies (Camas quama...

Bluebells aren't the only blues on the spring scene right now. There are also patches of Grape Hyacinths (genus Muscari) (above) and th...

One of the reasons I love the patches of rich blue Camas we have at this time of year is how they set off colors and plants that otherwise a...

I've posted photos of Camas before but as well as being a beautiful spring flower it is so historically significant here that I have to...

Taking a lot of photos encourages one to look at the world with a little more attention. Making regular daily blog postings increases this s...

After several days of featureless gray skies the clouds finally parted last evening and a river of sunlight poured through the rain-washed a...

It's said that when Hudson Bay Factor (and later Governor) James Douglas was sailing past this place in 1843, he saw these meadows of Ca...

Pictured above is a Camas Lily (Camassia quamash). This indigenous wild flower gave Victoria its original name of Camosun or "place to...