When Fern and I were out at Goldstream Park last week I was pleased to spy this little fellow, a Winter Wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) , hoppin...

These puffballs look like they just landed from outer space. Sometimes they pop up as individuals (above) and other times a whole colony ap...

Sometimes light and water create magic. - Fern

Fern and I went out to Goldstream Park yesterday to see if we could see any salmon spawning. We saw a few - immense fish tiredly lolling in ...

While in Goldstream Park last week I noticed this little wildflower that I had not identified previously. It is called Hooker's Fairy-be...

Most of the wildflowers I've been photographing lately are found in conjunction with the Garry Oak Ecosystem. Last week Fern and I went ...

There have been lots of posts on this blog of Goldstream Park, like this one and this one . It's worth a visit at any time of year but i...

While out at Goldstream Park looking for new growth in the underbush, I found these instead. A salmon was probably dragged up onto the bank...

Since I began to observe local birds and attempt to identify and photograph them I have been amazed to discover just how many different kind...

I've fallen in love with fungi. They are such wonderful subjects - they are practically infinitely varied (about 1.5 million species); t...

Maybe I'm just hungry this morning but the cap of this mushroom looks to me like some kind of delicious little cake topped with crème br...

I almost always identify birds, animals and flowering plants that I photograph for this blog. Mosses and lichens and fungi however, are usua...

Like I said a few days ago, it's mushroom season.

This photo so full of rich greens can serve as a suitable introduction to the next few days' posts. It's from a trip out to Goldstre...

One way to deal with the overwhelming biomass of the rain forest is to focus down. As usual, I always try to get everything into one picture...

Two weeks ago I posted a couple of photos of a waterfall in Goldstream Provincial Park , just outside Victoria. One of the most daunting as...

Water can be a challenging thing to photograph because it is rarely still. Today's photos are examples of a technique of photographing w...

Roses are red, Violets are blue ... except when they're yellow, like the one above. Up until recently I always thought violets were viol...

Here's another spring wildflower encountered in Goldstream Park recently, our local species of Trillium, called Western Trillium ( Trill...