When I go to the Matson Lands early in the year I always check out this spot first. The Snowdrops blooming here in this crack in the rocks a...

As soon as we are on the downhill slope towards spring I begin to check out the Matson Lands, pictured above. It's a very small chunk of...

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

...and a partridge in a pear tree. A Flock of Flickers is not in the old Christmas carol but it sounds like it could be. It seems that North...

It was a brisk and sunny day today so I took the opportunity to take in one of my favorite views of the city, from the terrace at Swallows L...

Here's another native plant of the North Pacific Coast, the small (despite its name) Giant White Fawn Lily (Erythronium oregonum) . Thes...

The photos for the last few days have been taken from a viewpoint above the West Bay Walkway above a small property known as the Matson Land...

Sunday was bright and sunny and immediately after I photographed the Snowdrops posted yesterday I walked to the top of the stairway leading ...

A couple of weeks ago I posted a photo of a Blacktail Buck in the Ross Bay Cemetery. Here's one I saw last week in the Matson Lands, a b...

The steep green hillside in the foreground is the Matson Lands, a conservation/restoration area of the Garry Oak ecosystem. On the right bey...

I had planned to continue this anniversary week with some kind of retrospective posts looking at the last five years but I was happy to have...