A Wildflower Journal
A Gardener’s Journal Website
A Wildflower Journal is now only about natural flora and fauna. Most content comes from Nature Hikes and some posts feature specific species encountered on these outings. Community events related to the topics are added to an events list. Lots of photos are included in the posts, news, and videos. A Gardener’s Journal is now a separate website, … Continue reading →
A Shift of Focus
This website will shift a bit to more focus on nature hikes and flora, and less on gardening. Gardening posts will now be in a widget, mostly seasonal updates or specific plants in the garden. Gardening remains a strong interest, but the website will have less content for the upcoming term.
Continue reading →BC Grasslands Conservation Council October Update
The latest update can be found at this link – gcc-mag-landscape-1up-for-web-20250906_compressed-2.pdf
Continue reading →Zillions of Photos
Over the last decade I have taken many, many photos. Recently, I have been pruning and weeding them, then sorting the keepers into named folders. This work will take some months yet, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. In my previous website, I uploaded many images to the website media library. This … Continue reading →
Flowering Plants of the Kamloops Area
A PDF document written by Paul Handford can be found at a page on this website: Flowering Plants of the Kamloops Area There is a download link on the page for anyone who wants their own copy of this PDF document.
Continue reading →Interior Daisies
A guide to Erigerons in the Interior was written by Paul Handford and is shared here as link to a page with a PDF embed: Interior Daisies There is a download button on the page too.
Continue reading →Gattling Gorge Nature Hike
We hiked from Helmcken Falls along the Rim and down to the Clearwater River and back up. The rivers were our focus, but we saw a few plants along the way too. We hiked through mixed forest with lots of moss, lichen, and shrub growth under the evergreen trees on the rim and on west-facing slopes in the canyons. … Continue reading →
Barnes Lake Nature Hike Video
A video is now published on Youtube featuring a nature hike on the Barnes Lake Trails:
Continue reading →Uplands Trails
On a 6.25 km hike on the Uplands Trails I spotted meadowlarks, bluebirds, woodpeckers, and crows. There were hundreds of yellow bells (Fritillaria pudica) in flower, lots of sagebrush buttercups (Ranunculus glaberrimus), some mosses starting to show signs of recovery, rust-infected mustards (Puccinia monoica) and desert parsley (Lomatium macrocarpum) getting ready to flower. All photos from the nature hike … Continue reading →