A hike down the Estuary to Cooney Bay, around the bay, and over the bluff, then back. Still ice on the shoreline, but the River is running. Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium) on the bay: Some poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii) in the rocks above the bay: And, orange crustose lichen, probably Elegant Sunburst Lichen (Rusavskia elegans) on the bluff: A sunny day … Continue reading →
Even though it is February and we are a few weeks away from real gardening, there are a few chores underway. Stratifying some seeds – cleaned up collected seed for hellebores, blue-eyed grass, and echinacea. Each in a container with some damp soil and into the freezer for 3 weeks. Some to be seeded in rows, some to go … Continue reading →
A Wildflower Journal has been around for a few years, but the site was lost to a cyberattack over the winter. Six websites went dark. Rather than try to clean up and patch the websites, I let them go to the nether, and I started a new website on a different webhost. KamloopsTrails.com came first and it … Continue reading →
