Oct. 5 – Rivers Trail Milkweed
We hiked 6.3 km on the Rivers Trail. Milkweed pods were opening to disperse seeds and we collected some for winter stratification.
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Oct. 4 – Blue Clematis
Writing a post about blue clematis for an upcoming post, so I went through my Clematis occidentalis photos.
Continue reading →Oct. 3 – Snapdragons
While doing garden maintenance, I stopped to observe many self-seeded snapdragon plants all in flower, needing almost no maintenance. I just gather some seedheads and scatter them in selected spots for the following year. A nominee for best-in-show for home gardens!
Continue reading →Oct. 2 – Rosehips
On hikes and in the home wild roses have finished flowering, but rose hips are abundant. They are browsed by wildlife, eaten by humans in various recipes/uses, and adorn our borders.
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 →